Mid Year 2015 – 78% Of 1,860 Data Breaches The Result of Hacking

[Audrey McNeil <audrey () riskbasedsecurity com>]

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2015/07/mid-year-2015-78-of-1860-data-breaches-the-result-of-hacking/

Risk Based Security has released its 2015 Mid-Year Data Breach QuickView
Report highlighting the data breach trends over the first six months of the
year.

Report Highlights:

- There were 1,860 data breaches reported during the first six months of
2015 exposing 228 million records.
- Five Hacking data breaches alone exposed a combined 181.3 million records.
- A single act of Hacking exposed 78.8 million records.
- 78.4% of reported data breaches were the result of Hacking, which
accounted for 95.3% of the exposed records.
- Phishing accounted for seventeen data breaches and the exposure of 1.4
million records.
- Breaches involving U.S. entities accounted for 37.6% of the data breaches
and 55.3 of the exposed records.
- 40.4% of the data breaches exposed between one and 100 records.
- Seventeen (17) data breaches exposed one million or more records.
- The Anthem Insurance breach of 78.8 million records rests at #15 all time.
- The number of reported data breaches tracked by Risk Based Security has
exceeded 16,700 exposing nearly 3.9 billion records.

About the Data Breach QuickView Report

The Data Breach QuickView report is intended to be an executive level
summary of the key findings from RBS’ analysis of the first half of 2015’s
data breach incidents. Contact Risk Based Security for your customized
analysis of data breaches or discuss Cyber Risk Analytics.

You can view the 2015 Data Breach QuickView report here:

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/reports/2015-MidYearDataBreachQuickView.pdf

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