100 Mind-Blowing Personal Facts

Queen Elizabeth II had a personal net worth of 425 million dollars. That includes the $65 million Sandringham House and $140 million Balmoral Castle.

When George Washington died, Napoleon Bonaparte of France gave a personal eulogy and ordered a ten-day mourning period for France.

You cannot add personal information on your resume in the UK, U.S., and Ireland.

The idea for the movie came from a personal experience. Writer Justin Zackham was inspired to create The Bucket List after a close friend was diagnosed with cancer.

Peyton List has a YouTube channel. She shares glimpses of her life, beauty tips, and fun challenges with her subscribers on her YouTube channel, connecting with her fans on a more personal level.

She is well-versed in martial arts. Peyton List’s training in martial arts has not only helped her with roles that require action and combat but also instilled discipline and focus in her personal life.

Frogs eat with their eyes! If you get close and personal with a frog and watch it eat, you may come away wondering why it closes its eyes every time it swallows. It’s not just that they savour every bite, but it’s biological. Frogs will close their eyes and then retract them down towards their throat, which helps push food down towards their stomach!

A graffiti tag is a symbol or image that represents the graffiti artist. Similar to a personal signature, a tag is unique and important to the artist.

The US is the Largest Market for the Antivirus Industry. It is important to note that there are more personal computers in the United States in use than there are in other nations. It is one of the primary reasons for the mammoth size of the US antivirus industry.

Linux is everywhere, ranging from servers to routers. Whether it is a device for personal or enterprise usage, chances are it can run Linux or already runs on it.

Linux has great applications for personal and small business financial management. GnuCash and HomeBank are the most popular ones.

Linux Market Share: Linux has gained ground as the third most popular desktop operating system, with a 2.92% market share as of October 2023, according to Statcounter. Beyond desktops, Linux’s reach extends further, serving as the backbone for a staggering 90% of the world’s cloud infrastructure. Its versatility, open-source nature, and robust performance have made it a prominent player both on personal computers and in the vast network of servers powering the digital services we rely on daily.

A 2021 LinkedIn data breach exposed the personal information of 700 million users or about 93 percent of all LinkedIn members. (RestorePrivacy)

In April 2021, a two-year-old vulnerability was discovered that exposed the personal information of more than 533 million users. (Auth0)

Personal data belonging to more than 100 million Android users was exposed in a 2021 data leak due to misconfigured cloud services. (Check Point)

Trading app Robinhood fell victim to a social engineering attack that compromised the personal data of 5 million users. (Robinhood)

74 per cent of financial and insurance attacks compromised personal details (Verizon)

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.

In 2020 hackers sold over 500,000 Zoom passwords on the dark web (Forbes): Criminals will often take advantage of events happening in the world, the concerns of their targets, and the vulnerability of society to make money. This was particularly evident in 2020 when countless hackers started sending COVID-themed phishing emails to attempt to hack personal and business accounts. Forbes reported in April 2020 that hackers stole and sold over 500,000 passwords for the popular video-conferencing tool, Zoom, which ended up on the dark web. The information included personal user names too.

Credentials are the most sought-after data in a hack (Verizon): Verizon’s report for 2021 on data security found that credentials are still one of the most sought-after data types, followed by personal data like social security numbers, names, and addresses. This demonstrates the importance of users protecting their own data and business data when using digital assets. IBM’s data report for 2021 also found hackers to be in search of personal details. The most common records compromised in this report were customer PII and anonymized customer data.

The first ATM launched in 1967 in London: John Shepherd-Barron is credited with the invention of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM). The first ATM was set up at a branch of Barclay’s Bank on a street in Enfield, London in June 1967. The first ATM in the US was launched in September 1969 at the Chemical Bank branch in Rockville Centre in New York. In 1970, a British engineer called James Goodfellow created the concept of a personal identification number (PIN).

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