Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The company is notifying the incident to its users via email and is forcing a password reset in response to the incident. ” continues the notification.

Data breaches 81

Data breaches Passwords Education Access 81

IT Governance

MARCH 22, 2019

Up to 600 million Facebook users have had their passwords leaked in an internal data breach. Security researcher Brian Krebs broke the news on 21 March 2019, explaining that the social network’s internal company servers contained passwords stored in plaintext. No signs of misuse’. What you can learn from this incident.

Data breaches 95

Data breaches Passwords Encryption Authentication 95

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. Data breaches. announces security breach (unknown) The Country Club at Woodfield, Inc. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. In other news….

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 116

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account. 60-Day Notification Window. Additional Considerations for Businesses.

Data breaches 142

Data breaches IT Insurance Passwords 142

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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Authentication Passwords Cybersecurity Personal data 127

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 95 security incidents throughout the month, accounting for 32,051,144 breached records. The first was a data breach at Twitter, in the latest PR disaster for the social media giant. Data breaches. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Insurance 115

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 106 publicly disclosed incidents accounting for 29,582,356 breached records this month. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified exactly 100 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 41,970,182 breached records. This suggests that it had a poor understanding of the attack and rushed to disclose the breach.

Data breaches 119

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 119

IT Governance

JANUARY 20, 2022

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,243 security incidents in 2021, which accounted for 5,126,930,507 breached records. How security incidents occurred.

Data breaches 144

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 144

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

Our figures for this month are comparatively low – with 83 data breaches and cyber attacks accounting for 5,127,241 breached records – but there is a sense that we are on the brink of something. First, Russia targeted banks and government departments, then Ukraine hit back, attacking the Moscow stock exchange.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 120 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 4,353,257 breached records. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, along with our rundown of the biggest incidents of the month.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Access 105

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. ” The prevalence of RedLine and other info-stealers means that a great many consequential security breaches begin with cybercriminals abusing stolen employee credentials.

Passwords 282

Passwords Authentication Sales Data breaches 282

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Other sensitive information such as passwords and financial information weren’t affected. In a statement issued to customers , T-Mobile said that it had discovered malicious, unauthorised access to its systems. Few details of the breach have been made public, other than the fact that it was a cyber attack and that approximately 1.5%

Data breaches 144

Data breaches Passwords Encryption Access 144

IT Governance

MAY 5, 2022

“My password was hacked”: it’s one of the oldest excuses in the book for people who post something regrettable online. But it’s also a growing reality, with Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report discovering that 61% of all data breaches involve stolen credentials. How to create a strong password.

Passwords 105

Passwords Authentication Data breaches Security 105

Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 69

Data breaches Access Mining Archiving 69

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. Multiple trusted sources told KrebsOnSecurity that Sosa/King Bob was a core member of a hacking group behind the 2022 breach at Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls.

Passwords 315

Passwords Phishing Access Encryption 315

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The ransomware attack on Xplain impacted tens of thousands Federal government files, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain.

Ransomware 122

Ransomware Data breaches Unstructured data Personal data 122

IT Governance

JULY 10, 2023

Welcome to our second quarterly review of cyber attacks and data breaches for 2023. In this article, we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of security breaches , and delve into the infosec landscape over the past three months.

Data breaches 73

Data breaches Ransomware Encryption Government 73

Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use. They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed.

Passwords 139

Passwords Security IoT Data breaches 139

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

Threat actors behind the ransomware attacks that hit Stanford University in 2023 gained access to 27,000 people. Stanford University confirmed that threat actors behind the September 2023 ransomware attack had access to 27,000 people. The Akira ransomware gang claimed the theft of 430 GB of data from the university’s systems.

Ransomware 113

Ransomware Data breaches Passwords Access 113

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our October 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. By contrast, comparatively little personal data was breached, with our figures confirming that at least 9,990,855 records were compromised. For now, it’s unclear what damage the data could cause if exposed, so we’ve omitted the figure from our tally.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Phishing 111

IT Governance

JULY 13, 2021

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of cyber attacks and data breaches. IT Governance discovered 377 security incidents between April and June 2021, which accounted for 1,224,539,395 breached records.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Retail Ransomware Government 98

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

US Government and defense contractor Belcan left its super admin credentials open to the public, Cybernews research team reveals. Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions.

Passwords 88

Passwords Military Manufacturing Analytics 88

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

IT Governance

JANUARY 25, 2019

Home improvement retailer B&Q has suffered a data breach affecting 70,000 of its… well, not customers, exactly. The breached database contained a list of people who had been caught stealing products from B&Q stores. The post 70,000 affected in B&Q data breach appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches GDPR Passwords Retail 111

IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Ashley Madison data breach victims still being hounded by sextortion scammers (unknown). Altice USA employees’ data stolen in phishing attack (12,000). Ransomware.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Personal data 145

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Transcript: Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 September 2023. According to the statement, attackers were able to access servers that held emails, control systems and reference copies of the electoral registers of those registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022, as well as overseas voters.

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Government IT Personal data GDPR 115

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expert insight from Leon Teale into the implications of this historic data breach The security researcher Bob Diachenko and investigators from Cybernews have discovered an open instance with more than 26 billion data records, mostly compiled from previous breaches – although it likely also includes new data.

Passwords 139

Passwords Data breaches Encryption Risk 139

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers. Privacy controls allow you to say who or what can access a database of customer data or employee data.

Information Security 202

Information Security Privacy Security Data breaches 202

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The provider of network security products Stormshield discloses data breach, threat actors stole information on some of its clients. Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some approved to be used on sensitive networks. ” continues Stormshield. Pierluigi Paganini.

Access 114

Access Data breaches Passwords Government 114

IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2023

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2023, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Overview IT Governance discovered 310 security incidents between January and March 2023, which accounted for 349,171,305 breached records.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Ransomware Government Encryption 59

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45 million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Set access privileges and internal controls. Employee training is crucial.

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Cybersecurity Data breaches Compliance Phishing 222

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

Top executives of the software firm SolarWinds blamed an intern for having used a weak password for several years, exposing the company to hack. Top executives of the SolarWinds firm believe that the root cause of the recently disclosed supply chain attack is an intern that has used a weak password for several years. Confronted by Rep.

Passwords 103

Passwords Government Security Access 103

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with custom merchandise platform CafePress in connection with the company’s alleged failure to implement reasonable security measures, and its alleged attempt to cover up a 2019 data breach.

Data breaches 81

Data breaches Passwords Information Security Sales 81

Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Unidentified hackers shared this screenshot of alleged access to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intelligence sharing portal.

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Authentication Passwords Government Access 270

IT Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Organisations are facing a war on data breaches, so it’s imperative that ‘know your enemy’ becomes part of their battle tactics. Data breaches come in various forms and sizes – not all incidents are caused by sophisticated cyber attacks. Unauthorised access. Are you prepared for a data breach?

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Ransomware Security awareness Insurance 106