IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Data breached: 19,718,687 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most of the leaked data is company information and emails, but includes employee names, phone numbers, employment contract numbers and emails, as well as email attachments, metadata and other sensitive information that could be exploited in supply chain attacks. The dashboard was first spotted in June 2021.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 31, 2021

On August 16, 2021, the U.S. The SEC’s order alleges that on March 21, 2019, Pearson learned of a 2018 cyber intrusion that affected data stored on the server for one of its web-based software products. The SEC’s order also alleged that the media statement omitted the fact that millions of rows of student data were breached. “As

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Manufacturing Passwords Data Privacy 111

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches.

Security 132

Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. IBM Security X-Force found the most common threat on organizations is extortion, which comprised more than a quarter (27%) of all cybersecurity threats in 2022. Where do data breaches originate?

Security 40

Security Data breaches Data Privacy Compliance 40

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

The cyber security industry, much like the rest of the world, is on edge. Our figures for this month are comparatively low – with 83 data breaches and cyber attacks accounting for 5,127,241 breached records – but there is a sense that we are on the brink of something.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Interestingly, close to a half of all affected victims by Prometheus – paid ransom payment or their data has been sold to other parties interested in it. According to Resecurity, at the early stage of activity the group leveraged Sonar, a secure data transfer tool deployed in Tor network providing API ( [link] ).

Sales 84

Sales Ransomware Government GDPR 84