12,449 Data Breaches Confirmed in 2018, a 424% Increase Over the Previous Year

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12,449 Data Breaches Confirmed in 2018, a 424% Increase Over the Previous Year
March 6, 2019
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4IQ, the identity intelligence company which published this report on the breached data landscape and trends, also discovered that, while the number of breaches saw a substantial boost last year, the average breach sized decreased to 216,884 records, a value 4.7 times smaller than the year before.

The company defines data breaches as confirmed incidents "where credentials, personal, medical, financial or other records with sensitive data have been accessed or disclosed due to being hacked or leaked, either deliberately or by accident."
During 2018 breaches became "the new normal"
In addition, "Government was the largest growing exposed sector in 2018, increasing over 291 percent from 2018," said 4iQ co-founder and CTO Julio Casal.
4iQ's 2019 Identity Breach Report uses data assembled from a far-reaching collection of both leaked and breached data obtained from open sources available on the surface, deep and dark web, as well as from black markets, social media, and underground forums and communities.
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