cyber trends
Social media ranked
top for the number of
records breached
GEMALTO, A WORLD LEADER IN
DIGITAL SECURITY, HAS RELEASED THE
LATEST FINDINGS OF THE BREACH LEVEL
INDEX, A GLOBAL DATABASE OF PUBLIC
DATA BREACHES.
T
he latest findings
of Gemalto’s
Breach Level
Index revealed
that 945 data
breaches led to
4.5 billion data
records being compromised worldwide
in the first half of 2018.
Compared to the same period in
2017, the number of lost, stolen or
compromised records increased by
a staggering 133%, though the total
number of breaches slightly decreased
over the same period, signalling an
increase in the severity of each incident.
A total of six social media breaches,
including the Cambridge Analytica and
Facebook incident, accounted for more
than 56% of total records compromised.
Of the 945 data breaches, 189 (20%
of all breaches) had an unknown or
unaccounted number of compromised
data records.
18
Data breaches
compromised
4.5 billion
records in first
half of 2018
In the United Arab Emirates, two data
breaches were recorded with more
than 14 million comprised data records.
In addition, the Telecommunications
Regulations Authority (TRA) reported that
a total of 274 cyberattacks targeted at
government, semi-government and private
sector entities in the UAE were recorded
in the first seven months of 2018. incidents are getting faster and larger
in scope. The Breach Level Index is
a global database that tracks data
breaches and measures their severity
based on multiple dimensions, including
the number of records compromised, the
type of data, the source of the breach,
how the data was used and whether or
not the data was encrypted.
Despite an overall decline in the number
of data breaches, Gemalto’s Breach
Level Index data suggests that security By assigning a severity score to
each breach, the Breach Level Index
provides a comparative list of breaches,
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