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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2022 – 49.8 million records breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. They’ll review the breach, mitigate the damage and ensure that you are up and running again as soon as possible. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Cyber attacks.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2021 – 61 million records breached

IT Governance

It has been another month of comparatively few reported cyber attacks and data breaches, with our August list containing 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records. You can that incident, along with our full list of cyber attacks and data breaches, below – with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.

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Librarian Sues Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach, Wins $600

Krebs on Security

And now she’s celebrating a small but symbolic victory after a small claims court awarded her $600 in damages stemming from the 2017 breach. Vermont librarian Jessamyn West sued Equifax over its 2017 data breach and won $600 in small claims court. Others are following suit. I was willing to do the work and go to court.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2019 – 1.39 billion records leaked

IT Governance

NY-based Episcopal Health Service notifies patients of data breach (unknown). Stack Overflow says cyber attack compromised customers’ data (unknown). Oregon Construction Contractors Board confirms data breach (8,013). Sunderland City Council launches investigation after library users’ personal data hacked (45).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records. They accessed 41.5

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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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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.