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September saw students around the globe returning to classes, only to be met with an avalanche of cyber attacks. The education sector accounted for 20 of the 102 publicly disclosed incidents listed this month – with the majority being ransomware. …
There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is …
After mammoth amounts of personal data were leaked in May and June, we’ve seen a reversion to the mean this month. By our count, 77,775,496 records were leaked in 86 incidents. This includes the Twitter hack on 130 people, including …
It was a familiarly bad cyber security story in June, with 92 security incidents and at least 7,021,195,399 breached records. That figure was boosted significantly by KeepNet Labs finally bowing to pressure and admitting that a third party did in …
We have just seen 8,801,171,594 breached data records in one month. Yes, 8.8 billion. Granted, the majority of those were the result of a leaky database belonging to the Thai phone network AIS that was quickly resolved – but it …
With only 49 reported data breaches and cyber attacks this month, you might have thought April was a calm month in the cyber security department. Of course, that couldn’t be further from the truth, with organisations being turned upside down …
With organisations across the globe turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has never been a worse time to suffer a data breach or cyber attack. And the bad news is that unsettled employees, many of whom are being …
At first glance, February appears to be a big improvement cyber security-wise compared to the start of the year. The 632,595,960 breached records accounts for about a third of January’s total, and is considerably lower than the figures for this …
The new decade has begun relatively well, with a six-month low of only 61 disclosed cyber security incidents. By comparison, 2019 saw an average of almost 80 data breaches and cyber attacks per month. It’s not all good news, though. …
The new year – and new decade – is underway, but before saying goodbye to 2019, we have one more monthly round-up to get to. December saw 90 disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, with 627,486,696 records being compromised. That’s …
