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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2022 – 9.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our October 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. As always, you can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, divided into their respective categories. Cyber attacks.

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Fines Construction Company £4.4 Million for Breach of Security Obligations

Hunton Privacy

The ICO determined that such violations rendered Interserve vulnerable to the cyber attack which took place between March 2020 and May 2020, affecting the personal data of up to 113,000 Interserve employees.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in November 2022 – 32 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

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).

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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. You can find the full list of incidents below, broken into their respective categories. Cyber attacks. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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

IT Governance

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. 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.

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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. To talk about which targets scammers pick, we’ll be looking at two categories: individuals and businesses. of cyber attacks IBM handled.