The end of the year saw December on average par with many of the months in 2022 when it came to records breached. November saw 32 million records breached, while December came in a close second with 31.5million breached. As the year drew to a close, reflections on the year and predictions for the year […]
November closed with more than 32 million records breached, although a data breach at Twitter and one at Whoosh (a Russian scooter-sharing company) account for the majority of these breached records. An alleged breach at WhatsApp has also put the data of 500 million users up for sale, but this has not been counted in […]
October has concluded as the month with the second highest number of security incidents (102) this year, trailing only August which saw 112 incidents. Surprisingly, the number of breached records was comparatively “low” at just 9.9 million, although it is likely this figure will rise as the impact of different breaches are measured. What’s more, […]
With less than half the breached records of August, September can be considered a “quiet” month in comparison, with “just” 35.5million records breached across 88 incidents, in comparison to 97million in August. Here’s the top stories from the month… Australian Telecommunications giant suffers 10million record breach On the last day of September, it was revealed […]
At the beginning of September, a security researcher identified a potential security flaw with “GIFShell”, which can be used to send GIF images via Microsoft Teams. The research found that threat actors are actively exploiting the flaw, and using it to launch phishing attacks by sharing files that include covert commands for the theft of […]
We can’t let August slip by without reflecting on the accusation that the former President of the United States misappropriated secure data for personal gain. If classified government documents are not safe from the highest of employees, is it that far to stretch that your own employees could be the perpetrator of a data breach, […]
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 […]