Wake up Call - Data Breach getting Worse (2018)

• 3,676 breaches and a staggering 3.6 billion records compromised
• Insiders posed the biggest threat - accounted for nearly 36% of the records compromised.
• Email addresses, passwords, names, and, addresses were the most commonly exposed data types.
• Only 13% were discovered internally.
• 7 of the breaches  exposed 100 million or more records
• Organizations took an average 47 days to publicly disclose an event

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