IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

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.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Government Passwords 126

IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 116

IT Governance

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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).

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Retail Government Ransomware 130

IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

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.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Government Retail 116

IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

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.

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 106

IT Governance

JULY 10, 2023

As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information. It was followed by the education sector (51) – and between them they accounted for 48% of all incidents that we identified. How many records have been compromised?

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Ransomware Encryption Government 71

IT Governance

JULY 13, 2021

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.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Retail Ransomware Government 98