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Nearly a billion records were compromised in 2014

In first nine months of 2014, after 1,922 confirmed incidents, criminals managed to compromise 904 million records. Many of the incidents reported in 2014 were record setting, including twenty of them that resulted in the compromise of more than a million records each. 2014 will be the turning point for most security programs, as executives start to see the value in protecting data first. Most common record type exposed in 2014 was passwords, followed by usernames, email addresses, and PII (name, address, SSN, DOB, phone number)”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2847269/nearly-a-billion-records-were-compromised-in-2014.html

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