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Previous years of data show the numbers trend higher later in the calendar year, suggesting 2024's final count may beat last year's record of 3,203 data breaches, up from the previous record of ...
The FCC's probe focused on how AT&T's privacy, cybersecurity and vendor management practices may have played a role in the January 2023 breach, in which hackers penetrated the company's cloud system.
What 2024’s Worst Data Breaches Teach Us About Staying Secure in 2025. 2024 was another banner year for cybercriminals—and not in a good way for the rest of us.
Further, the incident could be classed as a "personal data breach" which would be a data breach of the GDPR under Article 4 named "Definitions", paragraph 12. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] On 19 July 2024, a data-protection expert reported a breach of Article 32 named "Security of processing".
In January 2024, a data breach dubbed the "mother of all breaches" was uncovered. [6] Over 26 billion records, including some from Twitter, Adobe, Canva, LinkedIn, and Dropbox, were found in the database. [7] [8] No organization immediately claimed responsibility. [9] In August 2024, one of the largest data security breaches was revealed.
The stolen data contains records for people in the US, UK, and Canada. [13] [14] National Public Data confirmed on August 16, 2024, there was a breach originating from someone trying to breach their systems since December 2023, with the breach occurring from April 2024 and over the next few months.
Earlier this month, the FCC said AT&T had agreed to pay $13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023 that impacted 8.9 million AT&T wireless customers.
Okta confirmed the breach on 25 January 2022. [13] [14] Based on the final forensic report, Okta's Chief Security Officer David Bradbury said the attack only impacted two active customers. Okta began investigating claims of a hack after Lapsus$ shared screenshots in a Telegram channel implying they had breached Okta's customer networks.