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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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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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4 of the 5 top causes of data breaches are because of human or process error

IT Governance

Although data breaches as a result of cyber attacks get all the press, it is often negligence or a lack of basic processes, policies and procedures that result in data breaches. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) compiles quarterly statistics about the main causes of reported data security incidents.

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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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October Events at Dark Reading You Can't Miss

Dark Reading

Cybersecurity Month at Dark Reading is packed with educational webinars, from data breach response to small business security.

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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.