Around 70% of virus programmers are said to allegedly work under a strict contract for crime syndicates. Their jobs are to constantly detect vulnerabilities within their own company and try to find a way to block unwanted breaches out. There is often a black-or-white scale in the world of virus programming.
100 Mind-Blowing Breaches Facts
RiskTool is the Most Popular Mobile Malware, Responsible for More Than 54.06% of all Infected Gadgets. Though it’s not entirely malicious, it’s worth noting that RiskTool makes your mobile device vulnerable to breaches. It accounts for 54.06% of all infected machines, followed by Trojan-Dropper in 17.21% of infected gadgets.
88 per cent of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. (Stanford)
68 per cent of breaches involved a human element in 2024. (Verizon)
In 2023, security breaches saw a 72 per cent increase from 2021, which held the previous record. (Forbes)
In one of the biggest breaches of all time, three billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in 2013. (New York Times)
19 per cent of data breaches involve internal actors. (Verizon)
43 per cent of all breaches are insider threats, either intentional or unintentional. (Check Point)
So far, data breaches exposed 7 billion records in the first half of 2024. (IT Governance)
In the GDPR’s first year, there were 144,000 complaints filed with various GDPR enforcement agencies and 89,000 data breaches recorded. (EDPB)
Data breaches led to an increase in the pricing of business offerings for 57% of companies. (IBM)
32 per cent of all recorded data breaches between 2015 and 2022 were in the healthcare industry. (HIPAA Journal)
Financial breaches account for 10 per cent of all attacks. (Verizon)
Confirmed data breaches in the healthcare industry increased by 58 per cent during the pandemic. (Verizon)
The Average cost of a data breach is around $3.86 million (IBM): According to IBM, the average cost of a breach in data is around $3.68 million as of 2020. In 2021, this cost accelerated to $3.61 million in hybrid cloud environments. What makes the costs of data breaches even greater is that the average time to identify a breach is often around 287 days. The average cost of a ransomware breach was around $4.62 million in 2021 according to IBM, and healthcare suffered the worst, with the highest total cost for a data breach according to industry.
The most expensive part of a hack is the lost information (Accenture): According to Accenture’s report on the costs of cybercrime, the most expensive component of any breach is a loss of information. The los of information costs around $5.9 million, Accenture notes. What’s more, the number of hacking attacks focused on targeting specific people or personal data is increasing. Malware and web-based hacking have increased significantly in recent years. RiskBased Security found in 2020, data breaches exposed around 36 billion records in the first half of the year – double the number of records exposed in all of 2019.
Hacking attacks increased significantly during 2020 (Iomart): According to studies from Iomart, the number of cyberattacks, hacking, and their resulting costs have increased significantly during 2020. The number of breaches increased by around 273% during the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same period in the year before. Not only has the number of attacks increased, but the severity of the hacks is higher too. According to Japanese brand, Honda in June, a hacking attack hitting internal production systems cost the company around $250,000 in bitcoin.
Remote working may be causing increased hacking issues (IBM): According to IBM and the Ponemon Institute, there’s been a 10% increase in the average total cost of data breaches between 2020 and 2021. Remote working and digital transformation caused by the pandemic of 2020 increased the average cost of a data breach by around $1.07 million. During the pandemic, IBM notes customer PII was the most common type of record lost, included in around 44% of breaches, and each record was worth around $180.
More than 85% of breaches in 2021 involved a human element (Verizon): The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report for 2021 found around 85% of breaches involved a human element, and 61% involved using an employee’s credentials stolen from the business. In 2021, the majority of attacks came from social engineering, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, according to Verizon. Particularly, Phishing became one of the most significant threats during the pandemic.