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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 biggest data breaches of 2024 exposed critical vulnerabilities across industries, from healthcare to telecommunications. Let's examine the root causes, impacts, and expert-recommended ...
There have been more than 1,500 data breaches so far in 2024, including two huge ones. National Public Data, a company that performs background checks, confirmed that 2.7 billion records were ...
It is unclear whether temporary loss of access to data is enough to trigger liability, or whether GDPR applies to all incidents related to security or only unauthorised access. [51] 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.
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.
On August 27, 2024, The Washington Post reported that two major internet service providers in the United States had been compromised by China. [1] AT&T , Verizon , Lumen Technologies , and T-Mobile were reported to have been affected by the Salt Typhoon advanced persistent threat linked to China's Ministry of State Security .
On 3 March 2022, Yaroslav Vasinskyi was extradited to the United States and arraigned in Texas a few days later. [21] On 1 May 2024, Yaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay over $16 million in restitution for "his role in conducting over 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanding over $700 million ...