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Security breaches going up and become more severe. As data breaches often make users exposed to identity theft it ruins companies’ reputations and almost always leaves the company liable for compliance violations.
You will find data breach statistics below. It reveals the effects, motivations, and causes of these damaging attacks.
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Security breaches have increased by 11% since 2018 and 67% since 2014. (Accenture)
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Hackers attack every 39 seconds, on average 2,244 times a day. (University of Maryland)
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The average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days. (IBM)
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The average lifecycle of a breach was 314 days (from the breach to containment). (IBM)
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500 million consumers, dating back to 2014, had their information compromised in the Marriott-Starwood data breach made public in 2018. (Marriott)
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64% of Americans have never checked to see if they were affected by a data breach. (Varonis)
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56% of Americans don’t know what steps to take in the event of a data breach. (Varonis)
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The average cost of a data breach is $3.92 million as of 2019. (Security Intelligence)
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83% of enterprise workloads will move to the cloud by the year 2020. (Forbes)
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In 2013, 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in one of the biggest breaches of all time. (NY Times)
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In 2016, Uber reported that hackers stole the information of over 57 million riders and drivers. (Uber)
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Uber tried to pay off hackers to delete the stolen data of 57 million users and keep the breach quiet. (Bloomberg)
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In 2016, 412 million user accounts were stolen from Friendfinder’s sites. (Wall Street Journal)
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In 2017, 147.9 million consumers were affected by the Equifax Breach. (Equifax)
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The Equifax breach cost the company over $4 billion in total. (Time Magazine)
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In 2018, Under Armour reported that its “My Fitness Pal” was hacked, affecting 150 million users. (Under Armour)
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18 Russians, 19 Chinese individuals, 11 Iranians and one North Korean were involved in indictments for their alleged state-sponsored espionage against the United States. (Symantec)
