Data Breaches — Who’s Hit Hardest
VPN Overview tracks all things data and recently released a report on the industries that are most prone to losing your personal data to hackers. The report goes back to 2004 and found, since then, there have been 53 major data breach events and those events have lost over 5 billion pieces of data.
Yahoo’s attack in 2013 is the biggest of the bunch. Of the 5 billion pieces VPN says were lost since 2004, around 3 billion of them came from the Yahoo breach.
Insurers are lumped in with financial services. VPN Overview says that bracket had the third most breaches since 2004. First American Corporation led that field with a 2019 breach that led to 855 million records being compromised.
What makes that one particularly bad is that bank account details, Social Security numbers, wire transactions and mortgage paperwork going back to 2003 were taken.
Here are the top-10 most compromised industries and the details on the number of breaches:
1. Online companies — Yahoo, etc. Number of major breaches since 2004: 53
2. Health care Number of major breaches since 2004: 47
3. Financial Number of major breaches since 2004: 38
4. Government Number of major breaches since 2004: 30
5. Retail Number of major breaches since 2004: 27
6. Technology Number of major breaches since 2004: 19
7. Education Number of major breaches since 2004: 13
8. Gaming Number of major breaches since 2004: 12
9. Telecommunications Number of major breaches since 2004: 12
10. Social networks Number of major breaches since 2004: 8
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