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IT Governance
DECEMBER 1, 2020
We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. 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. Data breaches. Data breaches. Ransomware.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents. Cyber attacks.
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Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 12, 2018
The risks are about to get worse, because computers are being embedded into physical devices and will affect lives, not just our data. Security is not a problem the market will solve. We have accepted this tenuous situation because, for a very long time, computer security has mostly been about data.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
When we consider the damage a data breach can cause, we tend to focus on the cost of breach reporting, potential fines and loss of reputation. For life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, this includes data on the development and testing of new therapies and details of how therapies are manufactured.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 27, 2019
A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2
IT Governance
MARCH 11, 2024
66,702,148 known records breached in 103 newly 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. Data breached: 6.9
IT Governance
JUNE 1, 2021
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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