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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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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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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

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

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

67,273,297 known records breached in 130 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.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

16,482,365 known records breached in 240 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.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 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. 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.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

Verizon's Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. The exclusion of damages caused by hostile or warlike action by a government or sovereign power in times of war or peace requires the involvement of military action," the judges wrote.