Security News > 2024 > June > White House report dishes deets on all 11 major government breaches from 2023

The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on the most serious incidents suffered across the government.

Brute force attacks on networks and services were the only other vector to register more than 1,000 cases - but took the price for the biggest YoY percentage increase in incidents, up from just 197 the year before.

Separately to the grading of incidents' impactfulness on the US are "Major incidents", of which there were 11 reported across federal agencies in 2023 and multiple reports from the Health and Human Services, Justice, and Treasury departments.

HHS. Two of the 11 major incidents in 2023 came from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Treasury Department also clocked in two major incidents in 2023, and the first one could be argued as two separate incidents given that it involved the disclosure of the same data set twice.

Although MOVEit isn't explicitly named here, Cl0p was almost certainly responsible for the OPM's only major incident in FY23.

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