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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

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. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March 2020 – 832 million records breached

IT Governance

With organisations across the globe turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has never been a worse time to suffer a data breach or cyber attack. Medical and military contractor Kimchuk hit by ransomware (unknown). Data breaches. Nursing home probed after leaving disabled patients’ data on street (36).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 435 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

LockBit ransomware gang hit the Commission des services electriques de Montréal (CSEM) Social engineering attacks target Okta customers to achieve a highly privileged role Talos wars of customizations of the open-source info stealer SapphireStealer UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler Researchers released a free decryptor for the Key (..)

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

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.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Did anyone purchase the apparently stolen data?

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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Krebs on Security

banks took years to replace their customer card stocks with chip-enabled cards, and countless retailers dragged their feet in updating their payment terminals to accept chip-based cards. In 2015, the major credit card associations instituted new rules that made it riskier and potentially more expensive for U.S.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in September 2019 – 531 million records leaked

IT Governance

Thanks to a whopping data breach from an unknown server exposing 419 million data records, our monthly total comes to 531,596,111 breached records. This brings the total amount of breached records for the year so far to 10,331,579,614. Data breaches. DoorDash confirms breach impacting 4.9