Virus, Scam & Breach Warnings

October 2023 had 114 cyber incidents, accounting for more than 867 million records. This compares to 3.8 billion in September, 79 million in August, 146 million in July, 14 million in June, 98 million in May, 4.3 million in April, 42 million in March and 29.5 million in February, but it still doesn’t come close […]

September 2023 had 71 cyber incidents, accounting for more than 3.8 billion compromised records. This brings the year’s total to over 4.5 billion. This makes it the worst month for breached data this year, even outperforming January which had a whopping 277.6 million records breached. September saw the biggest data breach of the year by […]

May was an astronomical month for data records breached, with more than 98 million records breached across 98 incidents. This compares to 4.3 million in April, 42 million in March and 29.5 million in February, but it doesn’t come close to the astounding 277.6 million in January. The majority of the 98 million breached records […]

The breach figure for April took a nosedive compared to previous months, with ‘just’ 4.3million records breached, compared to 42 million in March, 29.5 million in February, and a whopping 277.6 million in January. Over 50% of April breached records came from a US medical services provider – Shields Health Care Group – who saw […]

With just shy of 42 million records breached, March has seen a number of high profile incidents, including a breach at Latitude Financial accounting for 14 million records, and a breach at Australian Telecoms company AT&T accounting for 9 million breached records. What’s more, a new report released in February, highlights that the Australian media […]

Compared with the 277 million records breached in January 2023, February’s 29.5 million records seems insignificant in comparison. It isn’t though. 29.5 million records is still a huge number, and it’s disappointing to see. Of these 29.5 million records, just over 20 million come from a breach at PeopleConnect, a business that conducts background checks, […]

2022 became the year of password hygiene, as experts around the world highlighted the very simple, but very important step of improving passwords to help protect your systems. Poor passwords are responsible for millions of breaches every year, and making simple improvements could have a very significant impact. Overall, there were more than 1,000 major […]

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 […]