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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 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: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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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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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

Prior to the Target breach, Rescator had mostly sold much smaller batches of stolen card and identity data, and the website allowed cybercriminals to automate the sending of fraudulent wire transfers to money mules based in Lviv, Ukraine. Archive.org shows that Hot Spot’s website — myhotspot[.]ru