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First half 2019 sees 4,000 data breaches exposing 4B records

by Cyber360 News
November 11, 2019
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The number of data breaches reported and records exposed
both increased by more than 50 percent during the first half of 2019 compared
to the same period in 2018.

The 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report by Risk Based Security found that there were 3,816 data breaches during the first six months of the year, up 54 percent, resulting in 4.1 billion records being compromised, up 52 percent. Although 3.2 billion of those records were part of just eight breaches and all were attributable to malicious actors discovering misconfigured databases.

The report only tracked publicly disclosed breaches.

“Looking over the first six months of 2019, it is hard to be
optimistic on the outlook for the year. The number of breaches is up and the
number of records exposed remains stubbornly high. Despite best efforts and
awareness among business leaders and defenders, data breaches continue to take
place at an alarming rate,” said Inga Goddijn, Executive Vice President of Risk
Based Security.

The healthcare sector suffered 224 breaches, retail 199,
finance and insurance 183, government and information 160 each and education
99.

Goddijn said the type of data being sought has also changed
with email addresses and passwords being the most sought, or at least the most
stolen. Email addresses were exposed in 70 percent of the incidents, followed
by passwords, 64 percent; name, 23 percent; Social Security number, 11 percent;
and credit card number, 11 percent.

Regionally the report did not offer much detail, but it
noted that 1,132 of the breaches took place in the United States, 353 were
non-U.S. but a location was not given and in 2,449 cases the nation was not
known.

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