Global Data Breaches in 2014-2016
The Who's, Whats, and Whys of Data Breaches
All Data Breaches
Breaches by Year
Breaches by Source
1.2 Billion Records
300 Million Records
30 Million Records
Types of Data Breaches
Account Access
Identity Theft
Financial Access
Nuisance
Existential Data
Trends and Patterns
1. Through the years 2014-2016, there was a slight downward trend in the number of data records that were breached by any means.
2. Account access appears to be prevalent across all the years as one of the if not most popular type of data breach.
3. Data Breaches are heavily conducted by those considered to be malicious outsiders.