7.9 Billion records were exposed in 2019

According to a Risk Based report, Data Breach QuickView Report 2019 Q3 trends, compared to Q3 2018, the total number of breaches was up 33.3 percent and the total number of records exposed more than doubled, up 112 percent.

Hacking remains the top breach type for number of incidents while the Internet has exposed the most records this year. By NAICS economic sector, medical services, retailers and public entities experienced the most breaches, but when all business related sectors are combined, general business remains the most breached organization type.

Number of breaches per economic sector:

  1. Healthcare – 343
  2. Retail – 307
  3. Public Administration – 264
  4. Finance & Insurance – 263
  5. Information – 234
  6. Education – 169
  7. Professional/Scientific – 160
  8. Manufacturing – 131
  9. Other Services – 60
  10. Admin & Support – 41
  11. Transport & Storage – 34
  12. Mining/Extraction – 32
  13. Real Estate – 31
  14. Hospitality – 27
  15. Arts & Recreation – 23
  16. Wholesale – 23
  17. Utilities – 13
  18. Holding Companies – 12
  19. Construction – 10
  20. Agriculture – 1

Taking a step back to look at breached organizations from another perspective, the Business sector still accounts for 66 percent of breaches, Medical 14 percent, Government 12 percent and Education 8 percent.

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More than 60% of All Leaked Records Exposed by Financial Services Firms.

A new report says that hacking and malware cause 75% of all data breaches in the financial services industry according to the below report from bitglass.

The Financial Matrix: Bitglass’ 2019 Financial Breach Report

The rise of global cloud adoption has revolutionized the way business is conducted across all industries. However, many organizations are still not utilizing the proper tools to secure critical data in the cloud and are suffering from recurring breaches as a result.

The magnitude of exposed files and affected individuals in the financial services industry far exceeds that of all other industries combined, even though financial services accounts for only 6% of all leaks.

The full report is available here.

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The Top Data Breaches of 2019!

According to the RiskBased Data Breach QuickView Report 2019 Q3, at the end of September, there were 5,183 breaches, exposing 7.9 billion records. Compared to the 2018 Q3 report, the total number of breaches was up 33.3 percent and the total number of records exposed more than doubled, up 112 percent. According to securitymagazine.com the top breaches are:

1. Social Media Profiles Data Leak – 4 Billion Records

2. Orvibo Leaked Database – 2 Billion Records

3. TrueDialog Data Breach – More Than 1 Billion Records

4. First American Data Breach – 885 Million Records

5. Verifications.io Data Breach – 808 Million Records

6. “Collection #1” Data Breach – 773 Million Records

7. Dream Market Breach – 620 Million Records

8. Third-Party Facebook App Data Exposure – 540 Million Records

9. Indian Citizens MongoDB Database – 275 Million Records

10. Chinese Job Seekers Mongo DB Data Breach – 202 Million Records

11. Canva Data Breach – 139 Million Records

12. Elastic Search Server Breach – 108 Million Records

More breaches…

Capital One – 106 million records

State Farm – Unknown

Biometric Records – 27 million records

Quest Diagnostics/AMA – 24 million records

Ecuador Breach – 20 million records

Hostinger – 14 million records

DoorDash Breach – 5 million records

Choice Hotels – 700,000 records

European Hotel Group – 600,000 records

Sprint Data Breach – Unknown

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