Verizon analyzed 47,000 reported security incidents from 28 different countries for this report. State-affiliated espionage campaigns claimed the No. 2 spot. External attacks remain largely responsible for data breaches, with 92 percent of them attributable to outsiders and 14 percent committed by insiders. The compromise-to-discovery timeline continues to be measured in months and even years, as opposed to hours and days. Third parties continue to detect the majority of breaches (69 percent), according to Verizon’s 2013 DBIR.”]

