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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. GB dataset on a hacking forum, claiming to still have access to the breached system. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in August 2022 – 97 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been breached – although the organisation is confident that customers’ details remain secure. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. of cyber attacks IBM handled. 70% of attacks were on banks.

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The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations. Among those affected was SAP SE. Breached records: more than 56 million. NTT Business Solutions in Osaka handles the computer system used by NTT call centres.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

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