Monthly Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Archive
35,900,145,035 known records breached so far in 9,478 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to our 2024 data breaches and cyber attacks page, where you can find an overview of the year’s top security incidents, the most breached sectors of 2024, month-on-month …
IT Governance’s research found the following for April 2024: The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: We discuss both events in more detail below. Announcement: slight …
IT Governance’s research found the following for March 2024: This month saw fewer records breached than in February (a 58% drop), but a staggering 388% rise in incidents. This is largely caused by two outlier events: To minimise data skewing, …
IT Governance’s research found the following for February 2024: After January’s 29.5 billion records breached, following the MOAB (mother of all breaches), 719 million records for this month seems comparatively small. The number of records breached is also small compared …
IT Governance’s research found the following for January 2024: Incredibly, even though 2024 has only just begun, we’ve already surpassed the totals of 2023 – across the full year – in both incidents and records breached. This is due to …
Welcome to our 2023 data breaches and cyber attacks page, where you can find an overview of the year’s top security incidents, as well as links to individual blogs about each month’s security news. Use the links in the ‘On …
IT Governance’s research found the following for December 2023: Both these figures are a significant increase on what we found for November 2023: 470 incidents and 519,111,354 records – 187% and 332% increases respectively. This is in spite of a …
IT Governance’s research has found the following for November 2023: The number of incidents is particularly high this month, partly because we’ve improved our incident-finding processes, but also partly because we’ve seen several big supply chain attacks this month. In …
IT Governance’s research has discovered the following for October 2023: Introducing our Data Breach Dashboard We’re excited to introduce our new monthly Data Breach Dashboard – a one-page overview of this month’s key findings that you can download for free. …
IT Governance found 71 publicly disclosed security incidents in September 2023, accounting for 3.81 billion breached data records. You can find the full list below. Follow the links for further information about each incident. There is one major outlier this …
