It's hard to remember all the 2018 data breaches. But when you look at the biggest and the most impacting, reported throughout the year, you will see a grim picture of the current state of data security.
The consequences of the leak of sensitive data from large companies are many. For consumers, it represents a loss of privacy, possible identity theft and countless hours of repairing damage to their devices as well as data replacement (credit cards, passwords, IDs, etc.). And they are also costly for companies in the form of negative advertising and consequential damage to their reputation, as well as the time and money spent on restoring the violation and securing customer data so they are well secured in future.
However, despite the known cost of data breaches, the problem of data leaks is not improving. Although there has been a greater number of 2017 violations, 2018 has been distinguished for mass-scale violations and branded players such as Facebook, Under Armor, Marriot, Quora, HSBC, NASA and Panera Bread. Cybercriminals have stolen sensitive personal identification data from users, including email and physical addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, phone numbers, travel routes, passport data, and more.
You would think that these problems could make companies more diligent to prevent data breaches, but that does not seem to be the case. In fact, companies rarely discover the data breaches themselves. According to DarkReading, only 13% of data violations are discovered internally by the victims.
In order to help people on the Internet to better understand the current problem of data breaches, the TruthFinder created this infographic. It analyzes the extent of the data breach, using statistics from 2005 up to date. Take a look at the infographic below to get a sense of why 2018 was a year of data tsunami.
