Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records.
You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold.
Contents
- Cyber attacks
- Ransomware
- Data breaches
- Financial information
- Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents
- In other news…
source: List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2022



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