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New research from Gemalto has
revealed a huge increase in the
number of records stolen or
compromised in 2017. It outlines
the breaches by industry, region
and type to give a breakdown of
the findings.
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Gemalto, a world leader in digital
security, has released the latest
findings of the Breach Level Index,
revealing that 2.6 billion records were
stolen, lost or exposed worldwide in
2017, an 88% increase from 2016. of data compromised and how it was
accessed, lost or stolen.
While data breach incidents
decreased by 11%, 2017 was the
first year publicly disclosed breaches
surpassed more than two billion
compromised data records since the
Breach Level Index began tracking
data breaches in 2013. Human error a major risk
management and security issue
Over the past five years, nearly
10 billion records have been lost,
stolen or exposed, with an average
of five million records compromised
every day. Of the 1,765 data breach
incidents in 2017, identity theft
represented the leading type of data
breach, accounting for 69% of all
data breaches.
Malicious outsiders remained the
number one cybersecurity threat last
year at 72% of all breach incidents.
Companies in the healthcare,
financial services and retail
sectors were the primary targets
for breaches last year. However,
government and educational
institutions were not immune to
cyber-risks in 2017, making up 22%
of all breaches.
The Breach Level Index serves as
a global database that tracks and
analyses data breaches, the type
Companies in
the healthcare,
financial services
and retail sectors
were the primary
targets for
breaches last year.
Based on data breach reports collected
in the Breach Level Index, the major
2017 highlights include:
Accidental loss, consisting of improper
disposal of records, misconfigured
databases and other unintended security
issues, caused 1.9 billion records to be
exposed. A dramatic 580% increase in
the number of compromised records
from 2016.
Identity theft is still the number
one type of data breach
Identity theft was 69% of all data breach
incidents. More than 600 million records
were impacted, resulting in a 73%
increase from 2016.
Internal threats are increasing
The number of malicious insider incidents
decreased slightly. However, the amount
of records stolen increased to 30 million,
a 117% increase from 2016.
What a nuisance
The number of records breached in
nuisance type attacks increased by
560% from 2016. The Breach Level Index
defines a data breach as a nuisance
when the compromised data includes
basic information such as name, address
and/or phone number. The larger
ramification of this type of breach is
often unknown, as hackers use this data
to orchestrate other attacks.
Jason Hart, Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer for Data Protection
at Gemalto, said: “The manipulation
of data or data integrity attacks pose
an arguably more unknown threat for
organisations to combat than simple
data theft as it can allow hackers to
alter anything from sales numbers to
intellectual property.
By nature, data integrity breaches are
often difficult to identify and, in many
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