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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

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Data breaches. Data breaches. Keep an eye out for our end-of-year report in the next few weeks, where we’ll break down the findings of these lists – or subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to get the latest news sent straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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

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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 April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

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Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. In case you missed it, you may also be interested in our first quarterly review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

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For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. By contrast, we disclosed 1 billion breached records in April, and almost 4 billion in the first four months of the year.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 343

Security Affairs

CISA adds Zoho, Apache, Qualcomm, Mikrotik flaws to the list of actively exploited issues Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor bans six more VPN services NginRAT – A stealth malware targets e-store hiding on Nginx servers Europol arrested 1800 money mules as part of an anti-money-laundering operation Mozilla fixes critical flaw in Network Security (..)

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

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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. We’ll also soon publish our 2023 review of publicly disclosed incidents and records known to be breached across the year, as well as our quarterly report, so keep an eye on our blog.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in January 2020 – 1.5 billion records breached

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By comparison, 2019 saw an average of almost 80 data breaches and cyber attacks per month. Several major incidents occurred in January, boosting the total number of breached records to a substantial 1,505,372,820. Chinese hackers blamed as Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach (unknown). Data breaches.