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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

It emerged this week, according to the New York City Department of Education, that data from a further 381,000 students was also compromised in this incident. This week, it turns out at least 191 further Australian organisations, including government entities, were affected by this breach, highlighting the risks of supply chain attacks.

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Data breaches and cyber attacks quarterly review: Q3 2021

IT Governance

As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information. As the graph above demonstrates, the other big contributors were the technology and media sector (37 incidents), the education sector (35), retail (18) and professional services (15).

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2022: 408 Million Breached Records

IT Governance

There is certainly a truth to that, with much more public awareness of ransomware and the strategies organisations can take to mitigate the risk. The victim can now not simply rebuff the ransom demand, because they risked customers’ personal data being leaked online. The biggest data breaches of 2022. Keeping your organisation secure.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Quarterly Review: Q3 2022

IT Governance

As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information. The other big contributors were the education sector (39 incidents), technology (33) and retail (25). How many records have been compromised? Keeping your organisation secure.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Quarterly Review: Q1 2022

IT Governance

As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information. The other big contributors were the technology and media sector (35 incidents), the education sector (25), professional services (18) and retail (16). Data breaches by sector.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Quarterly Review: Q2 2022

IT Governance

As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information. The other big contributors were the technology and media sector (36 incidents), the education sector (25), professional services (16) and retail (14). Download now.

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Data breaches and cyber attacks quarterly review: Q2 2021

IT Governance

It’s hard to know definitively how many records were compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information – either because the organisation doesn’t know or isn’t obliged to say. The education, technology and retail sectors were the other big contributors to Q2’s total with 44, 42, and 41 incidents, respectively.