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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

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Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Further victims of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ransomware attack identified Harvard Pilgrim Health Care suffered a ransomware attack in April 2023, which it has been investigating since then.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 million customers’ data compromised Cyber criminals known as dawnofdevil have claimed responsibility for a data breach at Hathaway Cable & Datacom Ltd, one of India’s largest Internet service providers, in December 2023.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Data breached: 19,718,687 records.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

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Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

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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. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. million customers’ data.

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

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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. Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number).

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

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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.