Security & Cyber

June 2024 saw a wave of sophisticated cyber attacks, from ransomware to data breaches. This highlights a stark reality for businesses: every organisation faces a massive cyber threat.

May 2024 saw a number of high-profile breaches and cyber incidents, most notably the Ticketmaster breach affecting 560 million users.

April 2024 saw 652 security incidents with 5,336,840,757 records known to be breached. There were less incidents but higher numbers of records breached in the attacks compared to March.

In March 2024, there were 3,478 publicly disclosed security incidents with 299,368,075 records known to be breached. March saw fewer records breached but a huge increase (388% rise) in total incidents.

February 2024 had 712 cyber breaches accounting for more than 719 million records being compromised.

This compares to a whopping 4,645 cyber incidents in January 2024, with more than 29 billion records breached.

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January 2024 had a whopping 4,645 cyber incidents, accounting for more than 29 billion records. This compares to 277.6 million records breached in January 2023.

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December 2023 had 1,351 cyber incidents, accounting for more than 2.2 billion records. This makes December the worst month in 2023. Here’s the other top stories you need to read: 2023 – the year of the cyber attack Is it time to ask why 2023 has been a UK cyberattack ‘annus horribilis’?  New security report […]

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 […]