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.

Data breaches 279

Data breaches Privacy Cybersecurity IT 279

Data Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Uber hired Sullivan as its first Chief Security Officer (“CSO”) following a data breach in September 2014 related to the unauthorized access of approximately 50,000 consumers’ personal information, including their names and drivers’ license numbers.

Data breaches 167

Data breaches Government Privacy Cybersecurity 167

Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

I linked to the story from the beginning of this blog post and got a handful of willing respondents for whom I sent their data and asked two simple questions: Does this data look accurate? What I can't do is send you your breached data, or an indication of what fields you had exposed.

Data breaches 139

Data breaches Encryption Sales IT 139

Data Matters

JULY 7, 2023

On June 30, 2023, Hong Kong’s data protection authority (the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, or PCPD) issued an updated version of its Guidance on Data Breach Handling and Data Breach Notifications (the Guidance, accessible here ), which aims to guide companies on how they respond to data breaches.

Data breaches 88

Data breaches Personal data Privacy Access 88

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.

Data breaches 97

Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Ransomware 97

Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

Open-source media player software provider Kodi discloses a data breach after threat actors stole its MyBB forum database. Kodi has disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen the company’s MyBB forum database that contained data for over 400K users and private messages.

Data breaches 91

Data breaches IT Passwords Encryption 91

Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. According to the letter, financial data were not exposed.

Data breaches 91

Data breaches Manufacturing Cybersecurity Education 91

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

Brands, the company that owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands, disclosed a data breach after the January ransomware attack. ” reads the data breach notification letter. Brands, the owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, discloses data breach appeared first on Security Affairs.

Data breaches 93

Data breaches Ransomware Cybersecurity Education 93

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. Our first downloadable Dashboard is going live next week.

Data breaches 87

Data breaches Insurance Ransomware Education 87

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The American Bar Association (ABA) disclosed a data breach, threat actors gained access to older credentials for 1,466,000 members. The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA has 166,000 members as of 2022.

Data breaches 89

Data breaches Passwords Education Cybersecurity 89

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Data Breach Dashboard For a quick, one-page overview of this month’s findings, please use our Data Breach Dashboard: Note: From this month, zero-day vulnerabilities are excluded from the ‘unpatched or misconfigured’ category. This blog provides analysis of the data we’ve collected.

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 113

Data Matters

MARCH 6, 2023

On January 6, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (the Commission) released a unanimously adopted Notice of Proposed Rulemaking , “In the Matter of Data Breach Reporting Requirements” (Proposed Rule). Reply comments are due on or before March 24, 2023.

Data breaches 88

Data breaches Communications Privacy IT 88

IT Governance

JULY 4, 2023

IT Governance found 79 publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2023, accounting for 14,353,113 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

Data breaches 96

Data breaches Ransomware Government Insurance 96

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach, the security incident exposed the personal information of approximately 1 million individuals. Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of informing approximately one million individuals.

Data breaches 85

Data breaches Access Passwords Ransomware 85

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

” T-Mobile declined to comment beyond what the company said in its blog post today. In 2015, a computer breach at big three credit bureau Experian exposed the Social Security numbers and other data on 15 million people who applied for financing from T-Mobile.

Data breaches 316

Data breaches Access Retail Sales 316

Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

The company immediately launched an investigation into the incident and notified law enforcement and data protection watchdogs. “It’s not clear who is behind the LetMeSpy hack or their motives. .” India, and Africa.

Data breaches 76

Data breaches Security Access IT 76

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

National pharmacy network PharMerica discloses a data breach that impacted more than 5.8 National pharmacy network PharMerica disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of 5,815,591 individuals. million individuals. billion and a customer base of 330,000 “beds” in 41 U.S.

Data breaches 84

Data breaches Cybersecurity Insurance Ransomware 84

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. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

December can be the best or worst time to suffer a data breach. On the one hand, people have started to wind down to the end of the year, all attention is on holidays and a data breach is more likely to fall under the data. But for the very same reasons, a December data breach can be the worst possible scenario.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Insurance 115

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. The biggest data breaches of 2022.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Government Passwords 126

IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

Welcome to our June 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Data breaches. We identified 80 security incidents during the month, resulting in 34,908,053 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken down into categories. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

Data breaches 136

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Blockchain 136

Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. pic.twitter.com/62uQWT4YQB — Andrea Draghetti (@AndreaDraghetti) May 12, 2023 The most recent entry in the database is March 16th, 2021, a circumstance that suggests it is a new data breach suffered by Luxottica.

Data breaches 89

Data breaches Retail Sales Ransomware 89

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But this growth in digital sales can come with a hefty price tag for retailers and consumer goods businesses: a much greater risk of data breaches. This wealth of data is an attractive target for cybercriminals to exploit for financial gain. For retail, the average data breach studied cost $2.96

Retail 93

Retail Data breaches Security Manufacturing 93

OpenText Information Management

MAY 1, 2024

It’s time for the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)! The post Unlocking insights: highlights from the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

Data breaches 57

Data breaches Phishing Analytics Cybersecurity 57

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 7, 2019

This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires organisations to respond to serious data breaches within 72 hours of detection. Are your staff equipped to deal with a data breach? appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

Data breaches 143

Data breaches GDPR Security Government 143

IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. This matches the number of security incidents that we saw in Q4 2022, but is a significant decrease on the number of breached records (185,721,284).

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Government Retail 115

IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Those looking for advice on where to get started may be interested in reading The Data Breach Survival Guide. Download now.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 116

IT Governance

JULY 7, 2022

This week, we discuss new NCSC guidance on avoiding cyber security “staff burnout”, a data breach affecting a Japanese city’s entire population, good news for the ransomware-hit Maastricht University, and the privacy implications of the metaverse.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Government IT Ransomware 105

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Data breaches. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

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. Meanwhile, you can find the full list of cyber attacks and data breaches for February 2022 below. Data breaches.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Data breaches. Data breaches. Keep an eye out for our end-of-year report in the next few weeks, where we’ll break down the findings of these lists – or subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to get the latest news sent straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 141

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 141

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2022

But before we turn our attention to 2022, we must first round out 2021 with our final monthly review of data breaches and cyber attacks. December saw 74 publicly disclosed security incidents, which accounted for 219,310,808 breached records. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 131

Data breaches Ransomware Government Sales 131

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

Data breaches 86

Data breaches Access Authentication Cloud 86

IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Data breaches. We identified 85 security incidents during the month, resulting in 99,243,757 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken into categories. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

Data breaches 119

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Access 119

IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. decrease in the number of security incidents compared to Q4 2022 (266), but an increase in the number of breached records (75,099,482).

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 105