IT Governance

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Incredibly, even though 2024 has only just begun, we’ve already surpassed the totals of 2023 – across the full year – in both incidents and records breached. This is due to a major outlier event: the MOAB (mother of all breaches) , where an open instance saw more than 26 billion data records leaked from 3,876 domain names.

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Data breaches Personal data Government Security 98

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. Records breached: Unknown Hunters International claims responsibility for cyber attack on Homeland, Inc. Date of breach: 26 October 2023 Breached organisation: Homeland, Inc.,

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2024

Cyber attacks and data breaches Leon Teale on the mother of all breaches 24 January 2024 Senior penetration tester Leon talks us through the implications of a historic 26-billion-records leak. Andrew Snow on a landmark GDPR ruling 12 January 2024 The ECJ (European Court of Justice) issued a landmark GDPR ruling in December 2023.

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Data Privacy Compliance GDPR Privacy 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages. The message displayed reads, "UPDATE EXCEPTION.

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