IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

After mammoth amounts of personal data were leaked in May and June, we’ve seen a reversion to the mean this month. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from July in this blog. Bitcoin scam leaks personal data of users from across the globe (248,926). Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 141

Data breaches Insurance Ransomware Personal data 141

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 95 security incidents throughout the month, accounting for 32,051,144 breached records. The first was a data breach at Twitter, in the latest PR disaster for the social media giant. Data breaches. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Insurance 115

IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

If you’re interested in detailed breakdowns of these incidents, why not subscribe to our Weekly Round-up or visit our blog , where we have a dedicated series on phishing scams ? Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36).

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Personal data 145

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2020

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. Oregon’s Klamath County Veterans Service Office says it’s been breached (unknown). Data breaches.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Personal data Ransomware Phishing 145

IT Governance

AUGUST 2, 2021

Data breaches. dealer data breach (100,000) Hacker gets thousands of confidential data on LimeVPN users (69,400) Breach of data in Public Distribution System of Tamil Nadu (5.2 And don’t forget to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest industry news and advice. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 105

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons.

Data breaches 306

Data breaches Authentication Access Personal data 306

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.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It has been another month of comparatively few reported cyber attacks and data breaches, with our August list containing 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records. You can that incident, along with our full list of cyber attacks and data breaches, below – with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Data migration 140

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage. With cyber attacks amounting to a question of when and not if, cyber insurance becomes crucial for ensuring business continuity and mitigating the business impact of attacks – should they occur. Tue, 05/10/2022 - 05:43.

Insurance 78

Insurance Authentication Risk Ransomware 78

IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 120 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 4,353,257 breached records. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, along with our rundown of the biggest incidents of the month.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Access 105

IT Governance

MARCH 31, 2022

Meanwhile, you can find the full list of cyber attacks and data breaches for March 2022 below. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Government 111

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

And don’t forget to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest industry news and advice – including our Q2 review of data breaches and cyber attacks, based on these lists, which will be published in early July. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

Our figures for this month are comparatively low – with 83 data breaches and cyber attacks accounting for 5,127,241 breached records – but there is a sense that we are on the brink of something. Meanwhile, you can find the full list of cyber attacks and data breaches for February 2022 below. Data breaches.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

IT Governance

MAY 1, 2019

Criminal accesses personal data of faculty staff and students at Georgia Tech (1.3 Australian Signals Directorate confirms data was stolen in parliament IT breach (unknown). Massachusetts hospital caught in phishing scam (12,000). Massachusetts hospital caught in phishing scam (12,000). Data breaches.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Personal data Ransomware Phishing 111

IT Governance

MAY 30, 2019

The cyber security story for May 2019 is much the same as it was last month, with one mammoth breach raising the monthly total. which breached sixteen years’ worth of insurance data. That incident accounted for more than 60% of all of May’s breached records. Data breaches.

Data breaches 112

Data breaches Personal data Ransomware Phishing 112

Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

In its consent order , the Department noted that the cybersecurity events had caused the exposure of a substantial amount of sensitive personal data belonging to Carnival’s customers, including those residing in New York. NYDFS also found that Carnival had failed to implement basic protocols to prevent data breaches.

Cybersecurity 115

Cybersecurity Insurance Phishing Financial Services 115

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums. How Did the Data Breach Happen?

Data breaches 89

Data breaches Insurance Paper Access 89

IT Governance

JULY 5, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal data. NFT marketplace warns users of phishing scams. NFT marketplace warns users of phishing scams.

Phishing 116

Phishing e-Delivery Retail Insurance 116

IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Personal data Ransomware GDPR 111

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

A database allegedly belonging to Ariix Italia was exposed online on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, it includes 30,000+ Italian sales agents’ personal data. What data is in the bucket? At the time of discovery, the data bucket contained 7,515 PDF and 25,895 JPG files. SecurityAffairs – Ariix Italia, Data Leak).

Sales 94

Sales Personal data Insurance Marketing 94

IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

There’s a new compiler at the helm of our monthly list of data breaches, following the departure of IT Governance stalwart Lewis Morgan, who leaves me with some mighty big shoes to fill. Fortunately – or, rather, unfortunately ­– the new regime has a familiar ring to it, with another mammoth list of data breaches.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Phishing 111

IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

But there were dozens of other cyber attacks and data breaches where the organisation either didn’t know or reveal the extent of the damage. Data breaches. We typically expect ambiguity when it comes to ransomware, because organisations are locked out of their files and can’t calculate what’s been affected. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

IT Governance

JANUARY 29, 2019

Although there will be some debate about the usefulness of including the 772,904,991 records from the Collection #1 breach – which comprises data stolen from a number of historic data breaches – even without them, the number of breached records still stands at just under 1 billion records for January 2019.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Privacy 111

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. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from August in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Data breaches.

Data breaches 122

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Manufacturing 122

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The shortest month of the year is over in a flash, but not before a significant number of data breaches and cyber attacks could take place. I always suggest subscribing to our Daily Sentinel to receive daily updates on the latest data breaches and cyber attacks. Malware breach strikes Chester County computers.

Data breaches 109

Data breaches Sales Phishing Ransomware 109

IT Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2020

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from September in this blog, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Data breaches. Notably, a patient at Dusseldorf University Hospital died during a ransomware infection after the facility was unable to provide urgent medical assistance.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Government IoT 140

IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

IN-based Goshen Health leans that 2018 data security incident did need to be reported (9,160). Tukwila, WA, School District hit by phishing scam (unknown). University of Alabama data breach exposes patients’ protected health info (20,000). Hackers target students at a Connecticut high school with phishing scam (unknown).

Data breaches 92

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Retail 92

IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks City of Philadelphia discloses data breach after five months Date of breach: 24 May 2023 ( notice issued 20 October 2023).

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 107

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2020

December saw 90 disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, with 627,486,696 records being compromised. Monash IVF Group warns patients of data theft after phishing attack (unknown). Cyber crooks attack Indian armed forces with phishing scam (unknown). Data breaches. Henry Co.,

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 116

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 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. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. Data breached: 5 TB. Data breached: 4 TB. Akumin Inc.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

million fine to Interserve Group Limited for failing to keep employee personal data secure, which violates Article 5(1)(f) and Article 32 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), during the period of March 2019 to December 2020. On October 24, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued a £4.4

Security 97

Security Personal data GDPR Insurance 97

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If having a skilled technical staff isn’t critical, then what arrangements should a company have in place to mitigate the occurrence of a data breach and to avoid the fines and penalties that can follow? Companies should have written data privacy and security policies and procedures in place. Insurability.

Security 164

Security Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches 164

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. have notified 330,000 people that their personal data might have been compromised as part of the MOVEit Transfer data breach.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

5,255,944,117 known records breached in 128 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 Privacy 94

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 28, 2024

To fulfill these principles, data protection strategies generally focus on the following three areas: Data security —protecting digital information from unauthorized access, corruption or theft throughout its entire lifecycle. These data breaches can cost their victims in many ways.

Data breaches 73

Data breaches GDPR Compliance Encryption 73

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 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: 815,000,000 Milford Management Corp.

Data Privacy 97

Data Privacy Privacy Libraries Security 97

IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

Want to stay up to date with the latest phishing scams ? In our first review of 2020, we look at a new twist on a PayPal scam, and discuss data breaches at an IVF treatment facility and in the Singapore government. Latest PayPal phishing scam goes for more than just your login details. Login vs log in.

Phishing 94

Phishing Passwords Access Government 94