Mid-year 2014 Data Breaches Exposed

2014 is going to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records, according to Risk Based Security.

Mid-year 2014 at a Glance …
• There were 1331 incidents reported during the first six months of 2014 exposing 502 million records.
• Two Hacking incidents alone exposed a combined 318 million records.
• A single act of Fraud exposed 104 million records.
• The Business sector accounted for 54.9% of reported incidents, followed by Government (16.1%), Unknown (11.8%), Education (8.7%), and Medical (8.5%).
• The Business sector accounted for 64.3% of the number of records exposed, followed by Government (34.9%),
• 78.2% of reported incidents were the result of Hacking, which accounted for 78.7% of the exposed records.
• Fraud accounted for 20.7% of the exposed records, but represented just 2.1% of the reported incidents.
• Breaches involving U.S. entities accounted for 39.6% of the incidents and 74.3% of the exposed records.
• 61.7% of the incidents exposed between one and 1000 records.
• Ten incidents exposed more than one million records.
• Three First Half of 2014 incidents have secured a place on the Top 10 All Time Breach List.
• The number of reported incidents tracked by Risk Based Security has exceeded 12,700 exposing over 2.9 billion records.

You can view the 2014 Data Breach QuickView report here:
https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/reports/2014-MidYearDataBreachQuickView.pdf

The Breach Report by Risk Based Security is a great enhancer to reports and presentations to business owners so they can invest in their Cyber Security teams.