It's hard to remember all the data breaches that happened in 2018. But when you look at the biggest and most impactful ones reported throughout the year, you see a grim picture on the current state of data security.
Οι συνέπειες της διαρροής ευαίσθητων δεδομένων από μεγάλες εταιρειών, είναι πολλές. Για τους καταναλωτές, αντιπροσωπεύει απώλεια ιδιωτικού απορρήτου, πιθανή κλοπή ταυτότητας και αμέτρητες ώρες επισκευής των ζημιών στις συσκευές τους καθώς και αντικατάστασης στοιχείων (πιστωτικές κάρτες, passwords, ταυτότητες κλπ). Και είναι επίσης δαπανηρές και για τις εταιρείες, με τη μορφή της αρνητικής advertisingand the resulting damage to their reputation, as well as the time and money spent on remediating the breach and ensuring customer data is well secured in the future.
However, despite the known costs of data breaches, the problem of data leaks is not improving. Although there were more breaches in 2017, 2018 was notable for massive and high-profile breaches players, As the 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. Analyzes the extent of the data breach, using statistics from 2005 to the present day. Take a look at infographic below to get a sense of why 2018 was a year of data breach tsunamis.
