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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

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9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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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. In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident. Data breached: 2,632,275 people’s data.

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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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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Unprotected Real Estate Wealth Network database exposes more than 1.5 billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 billion records containing property ownership data related to millions of people.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

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If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Edinburgh mental health clinic in probe after client information accessed in scam (unknown) Iranian Hackers Hit H&M Israel (unknown) South Africa’s VirginActive goes offline after cyber attack (unknown) B.C. Spargo & Associates Inc.

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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.