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We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. It’s simply the case …
You can find June 2021’s list of data breaches and cyber attacks here. For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in …
It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. …
You can find April 2021’s list of data breaches and cyber attacks here. Don’t be fooled by the fact that we only recorded 20,995,371 breached records in March; it was one of the leakiest months we’ve ever seen, with 151 recorded …
You can find March 2021’s list of cyber attacks and data breaches here. The cyber security industry was rocked in February after a ransomware attack against the Cloud service provider Accellion. Dozens of organisations that used the software reported incidents in …
You can find February 2021’s list of cyber attacks and data breaches here. Thankfully, January was relatively quiet on the data breach front, following a chaotic end to 2020 in which we surpassed a thousand security incidents and 20 billion breached …
You can find January 2021’s list of cyber attacks and data breaches here. What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? We logged 134 security incidents in …
You can find December 2020’s list of cyber attacks and data breaches here. We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data …
With 117 publicly reported security incidents, October 2020 is the leakiest month we’ve ever recorded. The good news is that those data breaches and cyber attacks accounted for just 18,407,479 breached records. However, it’s worth noting that, in very few …
You can find October 2020’s list of cyber attacks and data breaches here. 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 …
