IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. Data breaches. We logged 134 security incidents in December, which accounted for 148,354,955 breached records. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. The FBI estimates that $12 billion has been lost in these scams globally over the past five years.

Data breaches 110

Data breaches Computer and Electronics Passwords Insurance 110

IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. The FBI estimates that $12 billion has been lost in these scams globally over the past five years.

Data breaches 110

Data breaches Computer and Electronics Passwords Insurance 110

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

Data breaches 69

Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 69