10 biggest data security breaches in 2023

Normally, data security failures happen in the digital world , and can have many goals, from gaining respect in the hacker community, stealing sensitive information or even causing the loss of information to harm a competitor, for example. In general, the easiest target to be reached is the user of any system .

People , unlike software, are not programmable and need constant training so as not to compromise the entire system. Another important factor is to adopt encryption techniques in sensitive information, keeping data illegally for those who are not allowed to access it.

Understand how encryption protects your data:

In the corporate sphere, there are many tools and solutions to help the responsible IT professional, improve processes and systems within the company. And, of course, maintaining a content filter to block downloads and malicious websites is the first lesson to do in companies.

For the IT industry, good ways to avoid safety failures is to constantly monitor services that run in the company, make employees periodically and, undoubtedly the most important, have an efficient backup routine , following international standards that establish the number of copies, physical distance between them and the forms of contingency in storage and access to information .

Great safety failures

Large multinational corporations have already passed a hard time with confidential information leakage . The segment is becoming increasingly attractive to virtual attacks, so many of them are looking for daily solutions and care to stay away from threats, adopting combat measures, prevention and orientation for employees.

However, maintaining company data security Just as there are major attacks on multinationals, small businesses also suffer lower -scale attacks but with a negative degree of effect under the company, in many cases, much higher.

10 largest safety failures in the year 2020

Next, we will look at 10 flaws that have become remarkable in the digital world in 2020. If you want to see more information about each security failure download ebook and send it to anyone.

1. iFood - Security Break exhibits application data
2. EasyJet - Cyberataque exposes data from 9 million customers
3. Natura - 50 thousand Natura customers have information leaked on the web
4. Honda Motor - Automobile company suspends its production
5. Samsung - Safety Failure allows for invasion of Galaxy mobile phones since 2014
6. ZOOM - Privacy problems and invasions on the video conference platform
7. Energisa Group - Invador would have encrypted servers and requested $ 5 mi
8. Twitter - Hackers post fraud on Twitter of billionaires and famous
9. Nubank - Data from Nubank account holders were available on Google
10. Australia - Wave of cyber attacks on the government

10 biggest security flaws in 2023

After 3 years, unfortunately, data security failures continue to happen . It also became a seminar agenda that united specialists and representatives of the Central Bank, private sector and data protection entity at the end of 2022.

First semester of 2023

Down you can see the 10 data security failures in the digital world that impacted the world in the first half of 2023 .

1. Ferrari: On March 20, 2023 Ferrari automaker suffered a cyber ransomware attack that exposed names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers from thousands of customers
2. Construtora Andrade Gutierrez: This large company present in 11 countries suffered from the leakage of data from millions of customers in 2023 . Data from 10.6 thousand employees were also leaked
3. OpenAi: chatbot chatgpt had data from 100,000 leaked users
4. DISCORD: The platform has been notifying users since May about a possible data leakage . These users had the display of email address and even messages exchanged with the team in the support tool
5. United States Department of Energy: Through a data leakage that occurred this year, the US Department of Energy had confidential information available on the Internet
6. Federal Highway Police: After a cyber attack, cybercriminals asked in a publication, donations to former President Jair Bolsonaro through QR Code and Pix
7. American Airlines: 5,745 pilots and cadet candidates had the data leaked after an attack on the company
8. PWC: Although it denied data compromise, PWC assumed that some company documents were leaked after a recent attack
9. Tegma Logistics Management: The company had its resources unavailable after a cyber attack in June.
10. ACISPES: In May this year, ACISPES ( Intermunicipal Health Cooperation Agency Pé da Serra ) suffered a cyber attack that led to the suspension of all administrative and care functions.

How to protect yourself?

As we have seen, security failures can happen at any time, in any business business. We can say that there is no measure that guarantees 100% of the integrity of the data , but a combination of procedures followed by the entire company can minimize the chance that the failure occurs , and especially to contain the damage caused by it.

Safety failures happen with large companies , which invest considerable amounts in protective technology, imagine how fragile they can be small businesses that do not have the same concern.

The following are 10 tips that will help your business in this daily battle for information security . You can see more details about each tip by downloading the ebook .

1. Use safe passwords for all users and equipment
2. Activate the authentication of two factors (2FA)
3. Protect and internet access
4. Use antiviruses on all computers
5. Limit and record network traffic with a firewall
6. backup copies of the important data
7. Keep software always updated
8. Restrict permissions in shared files
9. Educate employees about phishing and social engineering
10. Implement a policy of using IT resources

Bonus

To increase network safety in your company, there are different alternatives, such as traditional solutions provided by specialized companies that require greater investment with hardware, specialized labor and constant maintenance.

However, you can opt for more modern solutions, which use cloud resources and are more affordable, easy to implement and management. This type of service is mainly recommended for small and medium businesses, good options are Lumiun , OpenDNS or DNSFilter.

To choose the best option to manage internet access, it is important to define your business needs well and compare the costs, features and benefits of each of the existing solutions.

Why Lumiun?

The company Lumiun is the only one of the options cited on the previous page which is 100% Brazilian. We really understand how the work environment works in Brazilian companies and create solutions that can increase network safety and team productivity.

There are more than 508 million controlled accesses daily and 95 million unwanted accesses blocked . It is data we study and that we agreed with third party services with the intention and commitment to protect the company's information.

Next, you will see the main features present in Lumun.

Internet Access Control Management

• Release and block of applications, websites and categories of websites. Including time.
• Protected search (safesearch) on Google, Bing and Youtube to ensure that inappropriate content are not displayed in search results.
• Domain research where Lumiun scanns and finds its category, reputation, description, last accesses and a preview of the page.
• Report of websites accessed in real time, as well as filters by time, equipment, users categories and answers.

Security

• Option to define the minimum reputation level to access a website.
• Blocking sites that belong to categories considered harmful such as hacking, malware, phishing, etc.

firewall

• Forget the old concept and difficult to implement firewall rules on your network. In Lumiun it is possible, with few clicks, to add blocking rules and release by doors, protocols, origin and destination. In addition, there are predefined settings that help the most lay people on the subject.

Business VPN

• You connected to the company network, wherever you want. With Lumiun Business VPN it is possible to connect external employees with the company's internal network. Making any and all remote access safe and fully controlled.

Speed

• With this feature you can limit the amount of download and upload to equipment groups. This way you can distribute your internet link as you find it better or according to the demand of each group.

Reports

• There is no point in all these resources if it was not possible to follow the result. At Lumun you can track in real time which are the most accessed or locked sites, access per period, safety blocks, firewall logs, equipment that most consumes the band on the internet and more. What customers like most at Lumiun is the ease of multi -net management in a single control panel, simple and accessible from anywhere.

Security in 20 minutes?

After passing on our main features and benefits, you may be apprehensive that you think it is a complex solution that takes time to deploy and has a high cost.

Good news! After receiving the Lumiun Box (sent in lending), our service team assists you at all stages. On average, since the installation of the box on the network and configuration of the control panel, our customers take up to 20 minutes. It is only 20 minutes to make your company's network safer and your team more productive.

Lumiun Lumiun DNS is also a complete tool for your business. With the help of this feature, it is very easy to block the main sites and applications that most consume people's time without much technical knowledge. It also allows you to create various access policies to manage lock rules .

What about the cost to hire Lumiun? You will be impressed by the low investment. Request our contact or go to www.lumiun.com , or download our presentation with all information about our solution.

Conclusion

In this article we saw how safety failures happen in large organizations, as well as their causes and consequences.

We believe that care for information security is essential to the success of growing companies. Certainly will have good internet security by 2023 those small and medium -sized companies that gradually and consistently deploy the tips present in this article and the ebook available for download.

In the age of knowledge, those who know the most about a subject are better prepared for new demands that arise every day.

To the next!