Data Breaches

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 […]

In October 2021, there were 94 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 51,248,331 breached records. Most of these breached records have come from a single cyber-attack, where an attacker hacked into Argentina’s government ID database, with every citizen of the country thought to be affected: Argentina’s population data theft A hacker has breached the […]

In September 2021, there have been very few security incidents in the UK compared to normal. What’s more,  despite 97 security incidents, comprising 91,127,815 million breached records, there is something unusual in that a single incident accounted for most of those records – 61 million – which were exposed via an unsecured database: Fitness Tracker […]

August 2021 has been a ‘quiet’ month with very few reported cyber-attacks and data breaches, compared to some previous months. August only saw 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records, and that figure would be a lot less if not for the attack on T-Mobile. The T-Mobile incident was  originally reported as only affecting 7.8 […]