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

IT Governance

The group has allegedly exfiltrated more than 10 million files. Data breached: >10 million records. million individuals affected HealthEC LLC, a health technology company, has announced that it suffered a data breach in July 2023, in which systems were accessed and files were copied. HealthEC LLC breached, almost 4.5

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2019 – 114.6 million records leaked

IT Governance

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. That’s about 10 percent of the monthly average coming into the month. British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). European Central Bank says one its websites was hacked (481).

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2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

Things like the most popular posts: The Onliner Spambot post was more than twice as popular as the next biggest post and both the top 2 were about massive dumps of personal data on the web. post of the year and I'm also happy to see 2 posts on HTTPS making it into the top 10 pages. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). Report URI.

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch

Troy Hunt

Wearco produces "mining consumables". Wednesday 10 April: I set the account up. Thirdly, the following statement was made without citing any evidence: "there has never been a security breach that has lead to our customer's personal data being used for malicious purposes". — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 6, 2019.

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