IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

For instance, a two-month Europol action (revealed to the public on 22 December) discovered that 443 organisations had suffered data breaches – specifically, their customers’ payment card data had been compromised. This blog provides analysis of the data we’ve collected. This month, we have found several ‘group’ incidents.

Data breaches 97

Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Ransomware 97

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. For the insurance industry, working with clients to help them tackle these challenges is vital to ensuring businesses operate in as safe an environment as possible.

Risk 161

Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities Marketing 161

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Think of all the data that you leave in a dealership, including the fact that you now own a brand-new car – which itself may be a potential target for criminals.

Manufacturing 96

Manufacturing Phishing Access Insurance 96

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Belden, the manufacturer of networking and cable products, disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen employee and business information. “Our IT professionals were able to detect the unusual activity and believe we have stopped further unauthorized access of personal data on our servers.” Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 104

Data breaches Manufacturing Insurance Access 104

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

Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Across the globe, the race is already underway among vehicle manufacturers to develop fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). AVs currently under development make sense of their surroundings and control vehicle operation through data gathered about the outside world. Additionally, since AVs can collect data from multiple sources (e.g.,

Privacy 85

Privacy Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Data collection 85

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. Agnes Medical Center patient data compromised in email breach at St. You can find our full list of incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 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. This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. It follows a mammoth start to the year, with more than 277 million breached records in January , and brings the running total for the year to over 300 million pieces of compromised personal data. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware e-Delivery Government 130

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didn’t pay, LockBit’s victim shaming website now offers free recovery tools, as well as news about arrests and criminal charges involving LockBit affiliates. The DOJ today unsealed indictments against two Russian men alleged to be active members of LockBit.

Ransomware 259

Ransomware Encryption Insurance Manufacturing 259

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. . The information was later posted to the threat actor’s leak site.

Ransomware 95

Ransomware Insurance Data breaches Manufacturing 95

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. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 122

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Manufacturing 122

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Data Breach Dashboard For a quick, one-page overview of this month’s findings, please use our Data Breach Dashboard: Note: From this month, zero-day vulnerabilities are excluded from the ‘unpatched or misconfigured’ category. You’ll also be able to download this in the near future, along with the month’s data (and our sources).

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 113

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A data breach suffered by Luxottica has exposed the personal and health information of patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Luxottica Group S.p.A.

Data breaches 79

Data breaches Insurance Retail Ransomware 79

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. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. According to data from the Federal Reserve , the 55-69 age group currently controls 41.2% So why do scammers go after older individuals more?

Energy and Utilities 115

Energy and Utilities Phishing Blockchain Cybersecurity 115

Information Governance Perspectives

APRIL 5, 2023

Wireless telematics devices and “black box” technologies collect and transmit data on vehicle use, maintenance requirements, and automotive servicing. John Danenberger, CPCU, is Corporate Counsel at State Farm Insurance and specializes in addressing emerging issues around telematics. What’s it like to work in this field?

Insurance 52

Insurance Military Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing 52

CGI

MAY 27, 2016

Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance. This old saying could also be applied for what is happening in the insurance market with IoT and that given the drive behind IoT in both the consumer and business markets. For example, car insurance could be varied between theft and fully comprehensive when the Car is not being used.

Insurance 40

Insurance IoT Marketing Manufacturing 40

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In today’s world, data warehouses are a critical component of any organization’s technology ecosystem. The rise of cloud has allowed data warehouses to provide new capabilities such as cost-effective data storage at petabyte scale, highly scalable compute and storage, pay-as-you-go pricing and fully managed service delivery.

Cloud 57

Cloud Analytics Unstructured data Compliance 57

CGI

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Insurers’ digital focus is looking through the wrong ‘lens’. Read any article on digital insurance and it seems to me that it is all about the insurers! Big data, fraud reduction, improved risk ratios, cross product customer engagement are common themes in the trade and advisor “blogsphere”. harini.kottees….

Insurance 40

Insurance Big data IoT Manufacturing 40

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

Collibra

MAY 14, 2021

Last week I attended the virtual Gartner Data and Analytics Summit. This conference brought together data and analytics leaders from top industries such as government, banking, financial services, insurance, and manufacturing. When striving to achieve data intelligence, don’t start from the data. Adaptation.

Analytics 59

Analytics Metadata Financial Services Government 59

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly. Data breaches. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pepsi Bottling Ventures confirmed this week that vast quantities of personal data were stolen in a cyber attack. However, not every data breach is as glaring as this one, with the cyber criminals having continual access to what appears to be complete records of affected individuals. What went wrong?

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Access 105

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

Artificial Intelligence 86

Artificial Intelligence Retail Unstructured data Insurance 86

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Between April 7, 2023, and May 4, 2023, Royal performed data exfiltration and ransomware delivery preparation activities. The Dallas City Council has approved a budget of $8.5

Ransomware 112

Ransomware Encryption Systems administration Cybersecurity 112

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

Increased scrutiny over connected car and automobile industry data from Chinese regulators, including push towards data localisation. China is a leading marketing for connected and autonomous vehicles, and use and analytics of connected vehicle data has been encouraged by Chinese Government support of big data and AI technology.

Big data 66

Big data Compliance Personal data Insurance 66

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In fact, many ransomware groups now have such an embarrassment of riches in this regard that they’ve taken to hiring external penetration testers to carry out the grunt work of escalating that initial foothold into complete control over the victim’s network and any data backup systems — a process that can be hugely time consuming.

Ransomware 337

Ransomware Security Agriculture Cybersecurity 337

Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, which provides technology-enabled business services to the commercial insurance industry. Xchanging is primarily an insurance managed services business that operates on a standalone basis.”

Ransomware 80

Ransomware Insurance Financial Services Manufacturing 80

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

See the Top SIEM Solutions Misconfigured SIEM Rules The researchers also found that 12 percent of all SIEM rules are broken and will never fire due to issues like misconfigured data sources, missing fields, and parsing errors.

Metadata 105

Metadata Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data.

Personal data 98

Personal data Phishing Risk Financial Services 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations.

Security 40

Security Data breaches Data Privacy Compliance 40

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

For highly regulated industries, these challenges take on an entirely new level of expectation as they navigate evolving regulatory landscape and manage requirements for privacy, resiliency, cybersecurity, data sovereignty and more. Similarly, in the U.S.

Cloud 78

Cloud Financial Services Risk Business Services 78

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. RA Group launched their data leak site on April 22, 2023, and on April 27, we observed the first batch of victims, three in total, followed by another one on April 28.

Ransomware 93

Ransomware Encryption Healthcare Insurance 93

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

While AGI remains theoretical, organizations can take proactive steps to prepare for its arrival by building a robust data infrastructure and fostering a collaborative environment where humans and AI work together seamlessly. NLP techniques help them parse the nuances of human language, including grammar, syntax and context.

Artificial Intelligence 88

Artificial Intelligence Marketing e-Delivery Manufacturing 88

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The initiatives that stand out the most — critical infrastructure security standards, a national data privacy and security law, and liability for security failures — will likely take time and the support of Congress to implement. ” Those fundamental shifts are focused on two core priorities.

Cybersecurity 102

Cybersecurity Government Manufacturing Personal data 102

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 5, 2020

Vehicles, drivers and passengers are becoming more and more connected, generating increasing amounts of data. Adjacent to these initiatives, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) recently published draft guidelines 1/2020 on processing personal data in the context of connected vehicles and mobility related applications.

Privacy 69

Privacy Personal data GDPR Insurance 69