Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

James Lee of the Identity Theft Resource Center Discusses Reasons Behind Breach Decline The decline in the total number of U.S. data breaches in 2020 isn't all good news; it reflects that hackers are changing their tactics, says James Lee of the Identity Theft Resource Center, who offers an analysis of the center's new data breach report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. GMA disclosed a data breach that impacted medicare and other information belonging to 5465 people. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 13, 2020

Victim Count in Magellan Health's April Ransomware Attack Still Climbing Why has the tally of major health data breaches - and the number of individuals affected - spiked in recent weeks? Here's an analysis of the latest trends.

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APRIL 8, 2024

A spokesperson said the agency conducted a "preliminary analysis" of the allegedly leaked data. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating claims that a notorious government hacker leaked a trove of contact information from the agency's database of critical infrastructure contractors.

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JULY 9, 2020

Biggest Incidents Have a Wide Variety of Causes What major health data breach trends emerged in the first half of 2020? Here's a rundown of the latest statistics - plus an analysis by experts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. million former account holders.”

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JUNE 19, 2018

Hacks, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure and Theft Incidents Top the List About three dozen major health data breaches have been added to the federal tally in recent weeks, including a mix of hacking and unauthorized access/disclosure incidents. Here's an analysis of the latest statistics and the reasons behind the trends.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Nation-State actors Aren't Going to Be as Obnoxious and Public Is Australia's data breach wave a coincidence, bad luck or intentional targeting? Here's an analysis. Maybe all three. But the security weaknesses that have led to the incidents are not exotic.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2019

Hacking Incidents Still Dominate, But Fewer Huge Incidents Than in Years Past Major health data breaches added to the official federal tally in 2018 impacted more than twice as many individuals as the incidents added to the list 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2022

This conclusion is derived from an analysis of data taken from our data breach detection tool, Surfshark Alert , which comprises publicly available breached data sets to inform our users of potential threats. Data associations to specific breach instances are only stipulated. Kaziukonis.

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IT Governance

APRIL 4, 2024

To minimise data skewing, we’ve accounted for this by providing two Data Breach Dashboards this month: one including and one excluding the above events. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected. Top 10 biggest breaches Note 1: Where ‘around’, ‘about’, etc. Where ‘up to’, etc.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 25, 2018

One Big Hacker Incident Responsible for Most Victims Impacted in 2016 Medicaid agencies and their contractors reported more than 1,200 data breaches in 2016, but just one hacking incident accounted for more than 70 percent of all victims, according to a new report. What else does the report reveal?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

29,530,829,012 known records breached so far in 4,645 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to our 2024 data breaches and cyber attacks page, where you can find an overview of the year’s top security incidents, the most breached sectors of 2024, month-on-month trends, links to our monthly reports, and much more.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 2, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of retailer Fat Face’s awkward "strictly private and confidential" data breach notification. Also featured: Discussions on the ethics of buying leaked data and the rise of central bank digital currencies.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Free PDF download: Data Breach Dashboard For a quick, one-page overview of this month’s findings, please use our Data Breach Dashboard : Note: To make these numbers as informative as possible, we’ve used the non-MOAB figures for January. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2024

Announcement: slight methodology change For data breaches and cyber attacks claimed by threat actors on dark web forums, where they provide samples or other evidence of the breach, we now accept these incidents as having genuinely occurred, but don’t accept the number of records the threat actor claims to have stolen at face value.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patrick Gunning from King & Wood Mallesons reports that, on November 2, 2023, the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australian Clinical Labs Limited seeking a civil penalty ( i.e. , a fine) in connection with the company’s response to a data breach that occurred in February 2022.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 5, 2018

Lawsuits filed in the wake of data breaches are evolving, says attorney John Yanchunis, who represents plaintiffs in many of these class action cases.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories AutoZone discloses a data breach after a MOVEit attack. AutoZone disclosed a data breach resulting from the hack of their MOVEit Transfer installation. AutoZone is an American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 25, 2022

Reports of Large Hacking Incidents Climb in Recent Weeks The number of major health data breaches posted to the federal tally so far in 2022 - and the total number of individuals affected by those breaches - has surged in recent weeks as reports of large hacking incidents continue to flow in to regulators.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Bank of America revealed that the personal information of some customers was stolen in a data breach affecting a third-party services provider. Bank of America began notifying some customers following a data breach at the third-party services provider Infosys McCamish System (IMS).

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Data Breach Today

JULY 28, 2022

Justice Department, in which Uber accepts responsibility for a data breach cover-up to avoid criminal charges. The ISMG Security Report analyzes a settlement with the U.S. It also discusses why early-stage startups are conserving cash and recent initiatives from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

The ‘Cost of a Data Breach’ report commissioned by IBM Security states that the cost of a data breach exceeded $4.2 The study highlights the significant impact of the ongoing pandemic on the cost of data breaches and the effort to contain them. The average cost of a data breach passed from $3.86

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Reconsidering the One-Size-Fits-All Healthcare Risk Analysis For over a decade, the HIPAA Security Rule has required covered entities and business associates to engage in risk analysis and management.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 VF immediately began taking measures to remediate the attack and launched an investigation into the security breach. million customers. VF Corporation is an American global apparel and footwear company that owns 13 brands.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Sorting Out What Kinds of Incidents Are Most Common This Year What kinds of health data breaches have been most common so far in 2018? An analysis of the official HHS breach tally reveals the latest trends, and security experts offer an analysis.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 20, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the cybercrime-as-a-service model and how law enforcement could potentially disrupt it. Also featured: T-Mobile probes a massive data breach; tackling abuse in the workplace.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the latest developments in Facebook's massive data breach and expert analysis of the potential for nation-state interference in the U.S. midterm elections.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 1, 2019

Analyzing Trends Reflected on 'Wall of Shame' Tally So Far This Year What are the most common causes of major health data breaches that have been added to the official federal tally so far this year? Read this analysis to find out the details.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hacking Attacks, Business Associate Incidents Were Common The federal tally of health data breaches shows that hacking attacks and incidents involving business associates dominated this year. Here's an analysis of all the latest trends.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 18, 2024

A new analysis of data breaches in the United Kingdom's legal sector shows that organizations need to be looking inward more and look for ways to elevate the security awareness of employees.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the huge trove of data, called Collection #1, that was first disclosed by Troy Hunt. Few weeks ago I wrote about “ How Data Breaches Happen “, where I shared some public available “pasties” within apparently (not tested) SQLi vulnerable websites. PARTIAL Analysis of Collection #1.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

For instance, a two-month Europol action (revealed to the public on 22 December) discovered that 443 organisations had suffered data breaches – specifically, their customers’ payment card data had been compromised. This blog provides analysis of the data we’ve collected. We log this as 41 incidents.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

867,072,315 records known to be breached. Introducing our Data Breach Dashboard We’re excited to introduce our new monthly Data Breach Dashboard – a one-page overview of this month’s key findings that you can download for free. Data exfiltration 53% of breached organisations are known to have had data exfiltrated.

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Jamf

MAY 25, 2022

Marking its fifteenth year, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report analyzes data breach demographics spread across multiple industry verticals, providing results based on breach cases and incidents reviewed.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

An Analysis of the Latest Trends - and What's Ahead Hacker attacks, IT mishaps, and vendor errors are among the top causes of the largest health data breaches added to the official federal tally so far this year. Here's an update.

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