The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In 2021, we endured the fallout of a seemingly endless parade of privacy controversies and milestone cyber attacks. On the privacy front, California beefed up its consumer data privacy regulations even as Facebook and Apple publicly feuded over how each of these tech giants abuse of consumer privacy and loosey handle sensitive data.

Privacy 235

Privacy Cybersecurity Ransomware Insurance 235

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 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. We’re also introducing two new categories this week: ‘AI’ and ‘Key dates’. According to its breach notification , Mr. Cooper detected suspicious activity on its network on 31 October.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. For that reason, most experts now recognize that a complete cybersecurity strategy not only includes technological solutions aimed at preventing, detecting, and mitigating attacks, it should also include cyber insurance to help manage the associated financial risks.

Insurance 117

Insurance Ransomware Cybersecurity Marketing 117

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. For more details about the year’s incidents, check out our new page, which provides a complete list of known data breaches and cyber attacks in 2023.

Data breaches 104

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Privacy 104

IT Governance

JULY 4, 2023

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Also be sure to check out our new page, which provides a complete list of data breaches and cyber attacks for 2023.

Data breaches 96

Data breaches Ransomware Government Insurance 96

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. The second was a cyber attack on the Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh, which was discovered after customers’ data was put up for sale on the dark web. Cyber attacks. Cyber attacks. Personal Paraguay telecom victim of cyber attack (unknown).

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Insurance 115

KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? In an interesting twist, new data hints that organizations with cyber insurance may be relying on it too much, instead of shoring up security to ensure attacks never succeed.

Insurance 72

Insurance Security awareness Phishing Ransomware 72