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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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GoDaddy discloses a new data breach

Security Affairs

” According to the company, the attack is part of a multi-year campaign that was the cause of the data breaches disclosed in November 2021, which impacted 1.2 million customers , and March 2020, which exposed data of 28,000 customers. ” concludes the company.

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Ferrari confirms data breach after receiving a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group

Security Affairs

Ferrari disclosed a data breach after receiving a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group that gained access to some of its IT systems. Ferrari disclosed a data breach after it received a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group that breached its IT systems. “Ferrari N.V. .”

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in February 2023 – 29.5 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 106 publicly disclosed incidents accounting for 29,582,356 breached records this month. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in March 2023 – 41.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified exactly 100 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 41,970,182 breached records. This suggests that it had a poor understanding of the attack and rushed to disclose the breach.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2018 – 139,731,894 million records leaked

IT Governance

There were some incredibly sensitive breaches this month, the majority of which were caused by human error. I imagine human error will continue to be the main cause of data breaches for decades to come – damn humans. Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim.