Cyberattack numbers for December were bad, stiff privacy fines in Europe and attacks on the healthcare sector continue
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, January 6th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast click on the arrow below:
While most of us are looking ahead to what will happen in the new year, for a little while statistics from last year are still emerging. Some are troubling because they reflect the poor state of cybersecurity around the globe.
For example, a British website called IT Governance which tallies publicly-issued reports on data breaches, found that in December alone there were 134 security incidents across the world. That’s the highest the site has recorded. Among those organizations that released numbers, those breaches accounted for over 148 million records of data exposed. That’s another monthly high. A record is one piece of information for a person, so a name, address, phone number and email address counts for four records. The total number of publicly-acknowledged records exposed in 2020 came to more than 20 billion.