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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in March 2024 – 299,368,075 Records Breached

IT Governance

This is largely caused by two outlier events: Misconfigured Google Firebase instances , exposing 124,605,664 records across 916 misconfigured websites. To minimise data skewing, we’ve accounted for this by providing two Data Breach Dashboards this month: one including and one excluding the above events.

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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2024

IT Governance

29,530,829,012 known records breached so far in 4,645 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to our 2024 data breaches and cyber attacks page, where you can find an overview of the year’s top security incidents, the most breached sectors of 2024, month-on-month trends, links to our monthly reports, and much more.

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US FTC Imposes Strict Reporting Mandates for Global Tel*Link

Data Breach Today

New Reporting Measures Follow Data Breach Affecting Prison Communications Provider Global Tel Link, a major prison communications provider in the U.S.,

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Idaho National Laboratory data breach impacted 45,047 individuals

Security Affairs

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced that it has suffered a data breach impacting more than 45,000 individuals. In November, the hacktivist group SiegedSec claimed responsibility for the hack of The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and leaked stolen human resources data. organizations, especially U.S. municipalities.

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Fashion retailer Forever 21 data breach impacted +500,000 individuals

Security Affairs

Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted individuals. “As a result, we believe the risk to individuals whose personal data was involved in this event is low.

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City of Philadelphia suffers a data breach

Security Affairs

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. We launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the event. The investigation is ongoing.”

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Bank of America customer data compromised after a third-party services provider data breach

Security Affairs

Bank of America revealed that the personal information of some customers was stolen in a data breach affecting a third-party services provider. Bank of America began notifying some customers following a data breach at the third-party services provider Infosys McCamish System (IMS).