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After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last …
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 …
There’s a new compiler at the helm of our monthly list of data breaches, following the departure of IT Governance stalwart Lewis Morgan, who leaves me with some mighty big shoes to fill. Fortunately – or, rather, unfortunately – the …
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 …
The first of this year’s monthly lists amounts to an impressive 1,769,185,063 leaked records, which – let’s be honest – isn’t the greatest start to the year. Although there will be some debate about the usefulness of including the 772,904,991 …
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 …
It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. This month’s total number of known leaked records is 44,701,278.
It’s time for the month’s list of breaches and cyber attacks, and it’s a big one. Almost 1 billion records were leaked this month – 925,633,824 to be exact. There were also a few more reported ransomware incidents than normal, …
