As July drew to a close, almost 100million records had been breached, which was nearly three times as many as were breached in June 2022. The number of incidents didn’t spike particularly (85 in July compared with 80 in June 2022), but the severity of some single incidents created the uplift in breached records. Virtual […]
June was a month on par with many others this year, with around 80 major incidents resulting in the breach of millions of individual records. June say just shy of 35,000,000 records compromised through the full range of attacks. UK’s biggest social housing provider Clarion confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack Social […]
May was a bumper month for data record breaches, with 49.8 million records breached across 77 incidents, compared with 14 million across 80 incidents in April. Most of the incidents in May were global, but UK-specific reports have related to human error. Verizon releases annual data breach report Verizon has released its annual data breach […]
April saw more than 14 million records breached across 80 incidents, and was also a month with many attacks that affected business systems without necessarily impacting data security. The National Cyber Security Centre releases annual cyber breach survey results Each year, the National Cyber Security Centre releases a research study of UK cyber breaches, focussing […]
When we think cybersecurity, for many, it has become synonymous with watching for dodgy links, avoiding scam emails, keeping an eye out for odd text messages, and having better passwords. While these are true (and important), cybersecurity does and should encompass any hardware, software or user that can make a connection to your network. Printers […]
Cyber insurance helps you manage your risk, recover from a cyberattack, and pay any costs that you may have incurred, but that is only if your claim is paid. In the last twelve months, we’ve seen a significant growth in the number of our clients taking on cyber liability insurance. (Not got it yet? Read our […]
In March 2022, there were 88 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents that accounted for 3,987,593 breached records. This means in the first quarter of 2022 the total number of breached records is 75,099,482. Many of March’s cyber security incidents occurred internationally, with only a handful of breaches in the UK. Russian government sites hacked Officials […]
If you can call more than 5 million breached records “low”, February figures are actually below average for cybersecurity incidents. There were 83 data breaches or cyber incidents in February, accounting for 5,127,241 breached records. As news broke of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there was a flurry of related security incidents towards the end of the month. […]
2021 was typified by numerous Covid-related challenges, including of course the continued need to offer home- and hybrid-working, which in many cases has exacerbated the challenge of maintaining good cybersecurity. This has led to an extensive list of published cybersecurity breaches for 2021, which may indicate a massive uptick in cybersecurity incidents, or more likely, […]
After a bumper 2021, filled with data breaches, ransomware, cybersecurity flaws, and massive incidents, but also leaps forward in cybersecurity training, defences, and awareness, we could only hope that 2022 would offer a promising start. Unfortunately, breach trends continue, led by dedicated hacking attacks, rife ransomware, and businesses and individuals who are still neglecting even […]
December saw 74 publicly known security incidents, which is slightly less than the previous month. These December incidents accounted for 219,310,808 breached records. Another Cyber Attack on T-Mobile After suffering a cyber-attack in August 2021, T-Mobile has been rocked by another big data breach in December. This attack saw customers accounts being accessed, according […]
There were 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents in November 2021 totalling 223,615,390 breached records. With only one month to go in the year the annual running total of compromised records is just shy of 5 billion. Labour Party hit by Cyber Attack Members of the Labour Party were involved in a cyber attack on […]
