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Washington auditor’s office warned agencies of data-breach risks. Then it got hacked By Jim Brunner, The Seattle Times Published: February 21, 2021, 4:45pm Share: State Auditor Pat McCarthy, a Democrat, talks Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, with The Columbian editorial board. (The Columbian files) On Christmas Eve last year, Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy’s office issued a dire warning that state agency computer systems and data make “attractive targets for cyberattacks...

Washington Auditor Warned of Cyberthreats Before Hack The Washington Auditors Office issued a warning to state agencies about cyberthreats and vulnerabilities before itself falling victim to one of the biggest data breaches for an agency in the state. by Jim Brunner, The Seattle Times / February 16, 2021 Shutterstock (TNS) — On Christmas Eve last year, Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthys office issued a dire warning that state a...

Reported U.S. data breaches and inadvertent data exposure in 2020 (Source: ITRC) The number of data breaches being reported in the U.S. and elsewhere each year continues to decline. But security experts say this unfortunately can be explained by criminals increasingly focusing on lucrative ransomware and business email compromise scams, which require scant data to be successful. In the U.S., reported data breaches and inadvertent data exposure incidents decreased by 19% from 1,473 in 2019 to 1,...

Breach volumes drop but ‘breached’ records surge 141%

2020 saw fewer data breaches but more records exposed The number of publicly reported breach events decreased by 48 percent in 2020. However, more than 37 billion records were compromised, an increase of 141 percent. A report released today by Risk Based Security reveals that this is by far the most records exposed in a single year since the company began reporting in 2005. "2020 has challenged the security-minded community quite unlike any other, and the number of records exposed highlights ho...

This has been a record year for cybercrime, thanks to COVID-19, ransomware, and nation-state attacks. As the worlds attention was focused elsewhere, cyber criminals went on a major offensive, keeping enterprise security teams around the world on their toes. According to a recent McAfee report, cybercrime will cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year: $945 billion in monetary losses and $145 billion in cybersecurity spending. Insurance giant Allianz estimates that 2020 is on...