Small Business Data Breaches in 2020 With small businesses making up 28% of the breaches, owners have to be more proactive in protecting their digital presence. Whether it is an eCommerce site, blog, V-log, podcast, or other digital assets, you have to protect your domain. This not only ...
The Identity Theft Resource Center found in the past six months there have been 540 publicly reported data breaches, a 33% drop from the number reported during the first half of 2019.
In June, we compiled the biggest data breach stories from the first half of 2020, and now we’re wrapping up the year with a rundown of recent data breaches. Many of the stories on this list feature familiar culprits: human error, compromised credentials, and determined hackers. Other stor...
Even if EasyJetupheld its legal responsibility and the company is correct that the hacker wasn't interested in customer data, they still damaged their customers' trust by waiting so long to go public. The Biggest Data Breaches of 2020 May Be Yet to Come With half the year left, there's ...
According to ITRC, the number of U.S. data breaches in 2020 totaled 1,108—a sharp 19% decrease from 2019, which saw 1,473 data breaches. Far fewer people were affected, too: 300 million, a 66% plunge from the year before.2Before this slide in data breaches, a hack on credit bure...
Learn about the latest trends in real-world security incidents and breaches—to help protect your organization and help you evaluate potential updates to your security plan. Download DBIR Top takeaways Explore a preview of some of the cybersecurity data uncovered by this year’s DBIR. ...
Empirically, our analysis considers the various rules currently governing the disclosure of data breaches in Australia, the US, the EU, and Canada, and the application of these rules in practice. While regulation of the digital economy is developing, laws governing the disclosure of data breaches ...
This, in turn, has led to a rise in the number of cyber crimes, ranging from minor breaches to global-scale attacks impacting billions of users – such as in the case of Yahoo. Within the U.S. alone, 1802 cases of data compromise were reported in 2022. This was a marked increase ...
1 in 3 Share of breaches that involved shadow data, showing the proliferation of data is making it harder to track and safeguard. USD 2.22M The average cost savings in million for organizations that used security AI and automation extensively in prevention versus those that didn’t. ...
The report analyzed over 500 breaches between August 2019 and April 2020, occurring around the world and enterprise industries. Currently, the average cost of a data breach stands at $3.86 million, which represents a 1.5 percent decrease from 2019 ($3.92 million). Meanwhile, the average time to...