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A new report has identified over 687 million exposed credentials and PII tied to Fortune 1000 employees, a 26 percent increase over last year's analysis.

According to a new report from SpyCloud, 70 percent of breached passwords are still in use and 64 percent of consumers repeat passwords across multiple accounts.

Share this article AUSTIN, Texas, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  SpyCloud researchers recovered more than 4.6 billion pieces of personally identifiable information and nearly 1.5 billion stolen account credentials from 854 breach sources in 2020, the company announced in its 2021 Credential Exposure Report released today. The number of breach sources increased 33% over 2019, with an average 2020 breach size of 5,455,813 records. Only 200 contained between 1 million and 50 million records, and just 17 had more than 50 million records. The 1,486,416,779 exposed credentials include email addres...

SpyCloud’s 2021 Credential Exposure Report was compiled from the vendor’s human intelligence efforts to recover stolen data from criminal networks early in the breach lifecycle. Some 854 breach incidents, up a third from 2019, leaked on average 5.4 million records each. Poor password security is still rife: for users with more than one password stolen last year, SpyCloud found that 60% of credentials were reused across multiple accounts, exposing them to credential stuffing and other brute force tactics. For the 270,000 .gov emails recovered, password reuse was even higher, at 87%. Near...