IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 TB of data, including engineering drawings, prints, schematics, patents, source code, supplier and vendor information, accounting data, and more. Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

Victoria, Australia, school says former student gained unauthorised access to sensitive data (90,000). South African utility provider Eskom is still feeling effects of a cyber security incident (unknown). Data breaches. Nursing home probed after leaving disabled patients’ data on street (36). Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 143

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 143

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format. The data contains more than 56 million records, some of which are duplicates. The ‘enforcement’ and ‘other news’ categories remain unchanged.

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Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Thailand’s Department of Older Persons breached, exposing almost 20 millio n personal data records The Department of Older Persons, part of Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, suffered a data breach in which 19,718,687 rows or personal data was exposed.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 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. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Given the extraordinary scale of the data breach, it’s been dubbed the ‘MOAB’ (mother of all breaches). Data breached: 2 PB. Data breached: 750 million victims’ personal data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million records offered for sale Europe’s largest parking app operator, EasyPark, announced last December that it had suffered a cyber attack that resulted in customer data being compromised. The claim is yet to be verified.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52