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The month of May was fortunate to see fewer data breaches across the UK than any other month this year. However, they didn’t come to a halt, with three human error blunders and a cyber attack on a worldwide used NFT marketplace discord.

The month of March saw several data breaches occur in the UK and internationally. The breaches happened through a collection of human errors alongside a number of cyber attacks.

January saw several data breaches that took place across the UK and internationally, particularly in the education sector, with three schools affected, two through human error. One of the notable data breaches in January was information regarding over half a million vulnerable war victims stolen from the humanitarian organisation, International Red Cross. Another significant breach included a cyber attack on Gloucester Council, presumed to be carried out by Russian hackers.

In November, some of the most notable data breaches included data from county schools in Kent being leaked to the dark web, patient records having to be destroyed after being abandoned at a former care home and the high-profile data breach involving the Labour Party.

In September, some of the most notable data breaches included a data breach involving the details of Afghan interpreters, an unsecured database containing customer records related to wearable technology and fitness services and a cyber-attack against a section of the France-Visas website.