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Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

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I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

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The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Aerial Direct, the O2’s largest UK partner suffered a data breach

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Aerial Direct’s data breach notification sent to the customers revealed that an unauthorized third party had been able to access customer data on 26 February through an external backup database. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Neiman Marcus discloses data breach, payment card data exposed

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Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. The attack against Neiman Marcus Group took place in May 2020, as a result of the attack, threat actors had access to customers’ information, including payment card data. Approximately 4.6

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Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic

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Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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15 billion credentials available in the cybercrime marketplaces

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More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. Crooks could use the credentials to launch credential stuffing attacks leveraging the data available in the black marketplaces. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime marketplaces).

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Retro video game website Emuparadise suffered a data breach

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Retro video game website Emuparadise revealed to have suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1 The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 At the time of writing, it is not known how DeHashed obtained the huge trove of data. Million accounts back in April 2018.