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

IT Governance

million OpenSea records for sale on hacking forum A cyber criminal known as ‘bossmoves90004’ claims to have exfiltrated 6.9 million data records from the NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace OpenSea, which they have offered for sale on a hacking forum. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2019 – 2.2 billion records leaked

IT Governance

Chinese job recruiting site hacked, with CVs for sale on dark web (160,000). Department of Health Services email hacked exposing patient data (14,591). Two Puerto Rico hospitals report ransomware attacks (520,000). Steel plant Blastech becomes second Mobile-based organisation to be hit by ransomware this month (unknown).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. has suffered a second attack, this time by the BianLian ransomware group. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. Akumin Inc.

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

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

In particular, in a blog article entitled, The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the FTC , dated August 31, 2016, the FTC provided guidance suggesting that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is consistent with the agency’s approach followed since the late 1990s in over 60 law enforcement actions and in business education guidance.