IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: more than 59 million data records.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Data breached: 2 PB. Mobile network database breach exposes 750 million Indians’ personal data The Indian security company CloudSEK claims to have found the personal data of 750 million Indians for sale on an “underground forum”. Data breached: 750 million victims’ personal data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

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

Data Privacy 107

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

GB dataset on a hacking forum, claiming to still have access to the breached system. Have I Been Pwned confirmed that the data set contained information relating to 19,972,829 people, despite the company’s denial. Data breached: 19,972,829 individuals’ data. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

Victoria, Australia, school says former student gained unauthorised access to sensitive data (90,000). South African utility provider Eskom is still feeling effects of a cyber security incident (unknown). Data breaches. Nursing home probed after leaving disabled patients’ data on street (36). School District (+24).

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 143

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52