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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. But that figure comes from 95 incidents in total, …

Remember after last month’s relatively serene cyber security scene we said this wasn’t the beginning of the GDPRevolution? July was bound to be a bounce-back month, but we couldn’t have expected the frighteningly high total of 2,359,114,047 breached records.  …

The cyber security story for May 2019 is much the same as it was last month, with one mammoth breach raising the monthly total. The offender this time is the First American Financial Corp., which breached sixteen years’ worth of …

We would’ve been talking about an extraordinarily low number of breached records this month if it hadn’t been for a string of incidents in India, another Facebook gaffe and a massive blunder in China, in which a series of companies …

2018 saw some of the biggest data breaches yet, with Marriott, Under Armour and Facebook suffering breaches that affected 500 million, 150 million and 100 million people respectively. It was also the year of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), …

The shortest month of the year is over in a flash, but not before a significant number of data breaches and cyber attacks could take place. I count this month’s total of leaked records to be 692,853,046, bringing 2019’s total …

Last month I thought I’d try something new, so I focused on three stories rather than putting together a long list of breaches. It wasn’t a very popular approach. So the list is back. I count this month’s total of …