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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in August 2022 – 97 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been breached – although the organisation is confident that customers’ details remain secure. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. of cyber attacks IBM handled. Phishing attacks made up 40% of all attacks in the sector.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93