And 2021 has been a particularly dire year for healthcare data breaches, with incidents taking down networks for weeks at a time and potentially leading to disruptions of care throughout the country. To add insult to injury, some hospitals even face legal action after restoring access to their...
The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2018 (so far) Healthcare continued to be a lucrative target for hackers in 2017 with weaponized ransomware, misconfigured cloud storage buckets and phishing emails dominating the year. In 2018, these threats will continue and cybercriminals will likely get mo...
Data breaches in Australia are on the rise, particularly in the financial and healthcare industries. In an effort to DISRUPT this negative trend, the Australian government is revising its cybersecurity frameworks and policies to strengthen resilience against nation-state threat actors. But Australian ...
The NHS is a publicly-funded healthcare system in England, one of four major systems in the UK. Quantifying the impact of data breaches on the NHS is complex because it comprises so many healthcare organizations. However, the series of breaches was one of the largest to affect the healthca...
In this article, we reveal which data breaches and leaks and the phishing, malware and cyber attacks ranked among our top ten most-read cyber security news stories of 2022. Read on to hear about data breaches at Revolut, Twitter, Uber and Rockstar, and let us know if you were impacted ...
Learn more about the biggest data breaches, based on number of records compromised, and get advice on how to prevent a similar breach at your organization. 1. Yahoo Records compromised: 3 billion Breach date: August 2013 Disclosure date: December 2016 ...
Major data breaches in Southeast Asian countries evidence the region's weaknesses in the areas of cybersecurity and data protection.
The Mother of All Breaches (MOAB): 26 Billion Reasons to Rethink Security January 22, 2024 2024 began with an unprecedented cybersecurity event called the “Mother of All Breaches”(MOAB). This massivedata leak,encompassing 12 terabytes of information, included over 26 billion records organized ac...
We've reached the halfway mark of 2020, so it's a good time to take a look at the biggest data breaches of the year so far. And to clarify, when we say "big," we're talking about the importance of the story as much as the number of records exposed. Each of the data breache...
Many healthcare organizations, especially hospitals, aren’t very advanced in their digital capabilities. This leads to poor cybersecurity, which leaves them vulnerable to data breaches. The sector faces the challenge of transferring data from old to newer systems. Healthcare organizations operate in ...