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

IT Governance

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB. and Robert W.

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

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023

IT Governance

On this page, you will find all our usual information breaking down the month’s security incidents. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. With that out of the way, it’s time to move on to May 2023.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 11 – 18 December 2023

IT Governance

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. The data belonged to nearly 7 million individuals.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in January 2023 – 277.6 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our January 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. The new year comes with the promise of fresh beginnings and the promise to revolve the bad habits of our past, but we’ve had no such luck in the cyber security sector. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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Seiko confirmed a data breach after BlackCat attack

Security Affairs

On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “we”) has confirmed that on July 28th of this year, the Company suffered a possible data breach.

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

IT Governance

Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages. Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology.