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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

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Known data breached Discord (via Spy.pet) Source (New) IT services USA Yes 4,186,879,104 Baidu, Inc., Security Spotlight To get news of the latest data breaches and cyber attacks straight to your inbox, subscribe to our weekly newsletter: the Security Spotlight.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

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Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D.

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

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Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is being retired on 31 March, to be replaced by version 4.0 The consultation closes on 17 April. of the Standard.

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

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million patients’ data via unsecured database According to DataBreaches.net, EyeCare Services Partners – a group of eye care providers based in Dallas, Texas – left 50 TB of data exposed via an unsecured blob. Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data.

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

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Australian government sets out risk-based system to respond to AI The Australian government has launched its plan to respond to the rise in AI, using a risk-based system to impose proportionate controls on its use. O’Hara & Sons, Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

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Known data breached Pure Incubation Ventures Source (New) Professional services USA Yes 183,754,481 EasyPark Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Software Sweden Yes 21,100,000 Cutout.Pro Source (New) Software Hong Kong Yes 19,972,829 Optum Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 6 TB Kumagai Gumi Group Co.,

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

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3 million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions.