IT Governance’s research found the following for February 2024: After January’s 29.5 billion records breached, following the MOAB (mother of all breaches), 719 million records for this month seems comparatively small. The number of records breached is also small compared to January’s numbers excluding the MOAB – 3,530,829,011 known records breached. However, the number of publicly disclosed incidents is similar: 769 (January, excluding MOAB) vs 712 (February). February saw two outlier breaches, which combined accounted for 79% of this month’s breached records: *The threat actor provided 100,000 records as a sample. Free PDF download: Data Breach Dashboard For a quick,

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252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Millions of Pure Incubation Ventures records listed on hacking forum 183,754,481 records apparently belonging to the venture capital and private equity group Pure Incubation Ventures have been listed for sale on a hacking forum. The threat actor,

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