Number of “Breached” Records Hits 36 Billion in 2020

guest · Oct 30, 2020

Risk Based Security’s 2020 Q3 Data Breach QuickView Report
Number of “Breached” Records Hits 36 Billion in 2020
October 30, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/number-of-breached-records-hits-36/

The number of publicly reported data breaches fell in the third quarter of 2020, but billions more records were exposed globally to bring the total this year to 36 billion, according to Risk Based Security.

The security vendor’s 2020 Q3 Data Breach QuickView Report was compiled from human and automated analysis of publicly available reports, FOI requests and news reports.
It claimed 2020 was already the worst year ever recorded, even before the extra 8.3 billion records that were exposed in Q3. However, these figures include not only stolen data but also cloud-based misconfigurations that may imperil information but not result in a malicious actor getting hold of it.
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The vendor’s executive vice-president, Inga Goddijn, argued that this could be explained by the rise in ransomware attacks. Although these accounted for 21% of reported breaches in the first three quarters, it may be that many more are not being recorded.

Interestingly, two breaches in Q3 exposed over one billion records each and four breaches exposed over 100 million records. So these six breaches cumulatively accounted for around eight billion exposed records, or over 22% of the total.
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Risk Based Security: New Research: Number of Records Exposed Reaches Staggering 36 Billion

Today, we released our new 2020 Q3 Data Breach QuickView Report, which reveals that the number of records exposed has increased to a staggering 36 billion. There were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, with the three months of Q3 adding an additional 8.3 billion records to what was already the “worst year on record.”
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