IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

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. million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In this blog, and in and accompanying interview with our colleague Daniel Hjort from Nexus Group, we discuss the challenges that industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies. Typically, when they are manufactured, IoT devices receive their initial identity in the form of a “digital birth certificate.”

Manufacturing 89

Manufacturing IoT Authentication Paper 89

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. The breached data includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and financial account and Social Security numbers. Data breached: 16,924,071 individuals’ data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Data breaches 52

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

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. Data breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. In total, 3,876 domain names were included in the exposed data set.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight US Environmental Protection Agency allegedly breached: nearly 8.5 Data breached: 8,460,182 accounts.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Security Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 Data breached: 2.7

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. The data is no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

OpenText Information Management

MARCH 9, 2018

There are now less than three months left until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. Although it seems like we’ve been talking about this new legislation for a long time, companies in every sector have been slow to react, with almost a third of small UK manufacturers not even beginning GDPR preparations.

Manufacturing 70

Manufacturing GDPR IT Information governance 70

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 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. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: 8 TB.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

On 25 November 2020, the European Commission ( EC ) published its proposed Data Governance Regulation (the DGR ), which will create a new legal framework to encourage the development of a European single market for data. This is part one of a series of three blog posts.

Government 101

Government Personal data Marketing Artificial Intelligence 101

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

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. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to a new series of weekly blog posts rounding up the biggest and most interesting news stories. 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. Records breached: Unknown, but sensitive personal data was probably breached.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 107

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 31, 2023

This use case involves devices and equipment embedded with sensors, software and connectivity that exchange data with other products, operators or environments in real-time. In this blog post, we will look at the frequently overlooked phenomenon of connected products and how enterprises are using them to their advantage.

Manufacturing 95

Manufacturing Cloud Customer Experience Analytics 95

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Welcome to our January 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below. The new year comes with the promise of fresh beginnings and the promise to revolve the bad habits of our past, but we’ve had no such luck in the cyber security sector.

Data breaches 136

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Government 136

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

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. It follows a mammoth start to the year, with more than 277 million breached records in January , and brings the running total for the year to over 300 million pieces of compromised personal data. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 22, 2024

“AI is an unbelievable opportunity to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges in health care, manufacturing, climate change and more,” said Christina Shim, IBM’s global head of Sustainability Software and an AI Ethics Board member. Therefore, it is critical to design and manage systems sustainably.

Government 95

Government Manufacturing Cloud IT 95

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. Ransomware.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

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. You’ll also be able to download this in the near future, along with the month’s data (and our sources).

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 113

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. You can take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in June in this blog.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Retail Personal data 140

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 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. This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, including our new feature in which we delve into the month’s biggest incidents in a little more detail. 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

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.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from August in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Data breaches.

Data breaches 122

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Manufacturing 122

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 What is more, the overwhelming majority of internet-facing cameras are manufactured by Chinese companies. Most of the public-facing cameras we discovered are manufactured by the Chinese company Hikvision: the Cybernews research team found over 3.37

Passwords 126

Passwords Manufacturing Authentication Government 126

Data Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Healthcare providers and medical device manufacturers, in addition to other government contractors and grantees, would do well to heed DOJ’s warning that “cybersecurity failures…are prime candidates for potential False Claims Act enforcement.”. A copy of the article is available here.

Cybersecurity 88

Cybersecurity Manufacturing Compliance Government 88

IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

But there were dozens of other cyber attacks and data breaches where the organisation either didn’t know or reveal the extent of the damage. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. In other news….

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

Data Matters

JUNE 18, 2021

The European Commission has formally launched its legislative initiative aimed at increasing access to and further use of data, so that more public and private actors can benefit from technologies such as Big Data and machine learning. Data Act ‘Inception Impact Assessment’ – invitation to comment.

IT 74

IT Cloud Big data Personal data 74

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. Ransomware.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

However, a relentless barrage of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and sophisticated cyber threats steadily erodes this trust. This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. updates the globally recognized standard for organizations handling payment card data.

Compliance 71

Compliance Cybersecurity Risk Manufacturing 71

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

We have just seen 8,801,171,594 breached data records in one month. Take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in May in this blog. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 145

IT Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2020

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from September in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Government IoT 140