New Index Tracks Material Breaches — And Refuses to Add Up the Losses

A longtime cybersecurity executive has built a website that tracks disclosed material breaches, aiming to give cybersecurity professionals, journalists, policymakers, and everyday citizens a resource that doesn’t currently exist.

The tracker was created by Richard Bird, who is currently Chief Strategy and Chief Security Officer at enterprise AI governance company Singulr AI. He previously held leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase and several cybersecurity companies.

Unrelated to his role at Singulr AI, Bird is an author, and in preparation for his upcoming book — Built Wrong: Why Cybersecurity Keeps Failing and How We Can Rebuild It — he has launched a new project named The Hacker in a Hoodie (HIH) Index.

The core of the site is a pair of ledgers that update on what Bird describes as a daily or near-daily basis, pulled by pollers and tracers he built and runs himself.

The first ledger draws from...

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