When it comes to data breaches 2018 was neither the best of times nor the worst of times.
Recent cyber security breaches 2018.
It is estimated that the average cost of a data breach will be over 150 million by 2020 with the global annual cost forecast to be 2 1 trillion.
This is the highest number of breaches ever recorded in a single six month period and a 133 increase since the same time last year.
Published 25 april 2018.
It was more a sign of the times.
Here are some of the biggest baddest breaches in recent memory.
The worst cybersecurity breaches of 2018 so far there haven t been as many hacks and attacks compared to this time last year but that s where the good news ends.
Here is the list of biggest cyber security breaches we saw in the year 2018.
Billions of people were affected by data breaches and cyberattacks in.
And that doesn t even begin to cover the millions of records stolen by cyber thieves in the second half of the year.
The database contained two terabytes of information that included the personal details of hundreds of millions of americans and businesses.
A recent report conducted by digital security company gemalto revealed that 945 security breaches led to a staggering 4 5 billion data records being compromised in the first half of 2018.
The 15 biggest data breaches of the 21st century data breaches affecting millions of users are far too common.
Facebook as per facebook ceo the company has not seen the accounts getting compromised nor found any inappropriate.
Security researcher vinny troia discovered in june 2018 that exactis a marketing and data aggregation firm based in florida had left a database exposed on a publicly accessible server.
Another year another series of malicious hacks and data breaches.
The cybersecurity industry has in 2018 grappled with regulatory changes and challenges massive data breaches executive and channel leadership transitions and heavy private and public funding.
It s estimated that in the first half of 2018 over 4 5 billion records were compromised by unauthorized parties.