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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

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It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network. Alternatively, you can view our full archive.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

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Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Agriculture USA Yes Unknown Precision Technologies Group – Holroyd Source (New) Engineering UK Yes Unknown A.G. Less than 1% of the DICOM servers on the Internet use effective authorisation.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

It also appears that the data was accessed: the Readme bot “partially destroyed” the open instance, injecting a ransom note with a bitcoin wallet address to send a payment to in exchange for the files. According to CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

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Known records breached Real Estate Wealth Network Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Real estate USA Unknown 1,523,776,691 TuneFab Source (New) Software Hong Kong Unknown >151,000,000 Dori Media Group Source (New) Media Israel Yes >100 TB Rosvodokanal Source (New) Utilities Russia Yes 50 TB breached; 1.5 TELDOR Cables & Systems Ltd.,