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2020 Data Breaches Point to Cybersecurity Trends for 2021 As the COVID-19 pandemic grabbed 2020 headlines, the list of data breaches in government and the private sector quietly grew. And then came SolarWinds. What’s next? Risk Based Security released their 2020 year-end data breach report this past week, and despite an overall decline in breach events (security incidents), the number of breached records grew dramatically. Other trends included a doubling of ransomware attacks from 2019 to 2020, and data breach severity rising. Here are some of the highlights from the report: “There were ...

Breach volumes drop but ‘breached’ records surge 141%

2020 saw fewer data breaches but more records exposed The number of publicly reported breach events decreased by 48 percent in 2020. However, more than 37 billion records were compromised, an increase of 141 percent. A report released today by Risk Based Security reveals that this is by far the most records exposed in a single year since the company began reporting in 2005. "2020 has challenged the security-minded community quite unlike any other, and the number of records exposed highlights how unique the year has been," says Inga Goddijn, executive vice president at Risk Based Security. "We...

2020 sees huge increase in records exposed in data breaches on January 21, 2021, 10:50 AM PST The number of breaches may have fallen, but the number of exposed records hit a high not seen since 2005, says Risk Based Security. Image: iStockphoto/Rawpixel Data breaches now seem to be a never-ending story as we constantly hear about one company after another being compromised. The true damage of these breaches lies in how much private or confidential information is exposed. Though the number of reported breaches may have declined last year,...