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September 2022 Data Breach Roundup
Monday, 7 November 2022The month of September saw a variety of data breach incidents, ranging from a well known world wide taxi company to several schools.
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July 2022 data breach roundup
Wednesday, 24 August 2022July saw a number of data breach incidents, with the education sector being hit particularly hard, including an email blunder incident and another where cyber criminals released sensitive information on the dark web after no compliance to their ransom requests.
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Hayes Connor expands offering with specialist reputation & defamation service
Monday, 25 July 2022Specialist law firm Hayes Connor has boosted the level of support available to its clients with the launch of a new reputation and defamation service, after it saw an increase in the number of data breach cases involving such issues.
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June 2022 data breach roundup
Tuesday, 12 July 2022The month of June saw several data breach incidents across a range of sectors, from the food industry to a German energy provider.
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May 2022 data breach roundup
Thursday, 30 June 2022The month of May was fortunate to see fewer data breaches across the UK than any other month this year. However, they didn’t come to a halt, with three human error blunders and a cyber attack on a worldwide used NFT marketplace discord.
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April 2022 data breach roundup
Tuesday, 21 June 2022The month of April saw various data breaches occur across a number of industries in the UK. Many of which occurred due to hackers accessing systems, but also via human error.
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March 2022 data breach roundup
Wednesday, 13 April 2022The month of March saw several data breaches occur in the UK and internationally. The breaches happened through a collection of human errors alongside a number of cyber attacks.
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February 2022 data breach roundup
Tuesday, 8 March 2022February saw several data breaches nationally, many of which were human errors. It is notable that two of the February breaches were in the healthcare sector, with one significant matter concerning sensitive medical details that were mistakenly shared.
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January 2022 data breach roundup
Tuesday, 15 February 2022January saw several data breaches that took place across the UK and internationally, particularly in the education sector, with three schools affected, two through human error. One of the notable data breaches in January was information regarding over half a million vulnerable war victims stolen from the humanitarian organisation, International Red Cross. Another significant breach included a cyber attack on Gloucester Council, presumed to be carried out by Russian hackers.
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December 2021 Data Breach Roundup
Monday, 17 January 2022In December, some of the most notable data breaches included Gumtree advertisers’ information being leaked via a simple security vulnerability, an NHS trust exposing the data of Covid vaccine trialists and Sainsbury’s being hit by a cyber-attack against their payroll provider Kronos.
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