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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

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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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

Plus, a further 3,029,461 known records newly breached Welcome to this week’s global round-up of 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. Data breached: 395 GB.

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Free Webinar: Privacy by Design – A Paradigm for Process and Technology on July 14th at 1pm EST

IG Guru

With all the headlines on data breaches and PII being divulged, one thing is certain: Privacy program design doesn’t happen by accident—or by itself. The post Free Webinar: Privacy by Design – A Paradigm for Process and Technology on July 14th at 1pm EST appeared first on IG GURU.

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What have the ICO said about data breach?

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The ICO have been discussing data breach reporting under GDPR in a new webinar. Here are the key points: GDPR introduces mandatory breach reporting. This applies to accidental breaches and internal breaches – not just those that are deliberate or are about losing personal data externally.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

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: >33,000,000 people’s data. Data breached: 19,718,687 records. Data breached: 13,300,750 people’s data.

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COVID-19: addressing your organisation’s cyber risk and data privacy response measures

IT Governance

We recently hosted a webinar in which a team of experts discussed the short- and long-term effects that coronavirus will have on organisations. Ask employees whether they have everything they need to follow your information security policies and processes, and give them the necessary education to tackle threats.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of 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.