Data Breach 2024 Checklist 2024. Cyberattacks and data breaches during the first half of 2024 have included the ransomware attacks against change healthcare and cdk, as well as data theft and extortion attacks targeting. In march 2024, freecycle, an online community for sharing and reusing goods, suffered a data breach impacting 7 million users.

Cybersecurity is a critical—and growing—priority. To avoid skewing the data, for the global figures, the following graphs have excluded four outlier events: