Data Breach Report
2018 END-OF-YEAR DATA BREACH REPORT idtheftcenter.org • 1-888-400-5530 SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY 2018 KEY FINDINGS posed EConsumerx PII records are Total number of breaches reported % in 2018 are 126 SINCE 2017 23% FROM 2017 Banking/Credit/Financial 134 3,230,308 135 1,709,013 Business 907 181,630,520 571 415,233,143 Education 128 1,418,455 76 1,408,670 Government/Military 79 6,030,619 99 18,236,710 Medical/Healthcare 384 5,302,846 363 9,927,798 Annual Totals 1,632 197,612,748 1,244 446,515,334 was the most common HACKING form of data breach 2017 2018 THE Had the largest amount of data BUSINESS breaches but had the lowest rate of exposure per breach. THESECTOR Had the second largest amount of HEALTH breaches in 2018 and the highest rate of exposure per breach. FACEBOOK FACEBOOK CAREFIELD FACEBOOK Marriott International had the One MAJOR breach allowed hackers to highest number of reported access “tokens” for records exposed in 2018, UNITY- 50 million accounts impacting 383 MILLION POINT GOOGLE + GOOGLE GOOGLE + GOOGLE people worldwide. HEALTH + GOOGLE exposed info. Breached TWICE for 1.4 MMILL impacting 53 M patients. USERS © IDENTITY THEFT RESOURCE CENTER 2019 | IDTHEFTCENTER.ORG EXECUTIVE SUMMARY DATA BREACHES, THE NEW NORMAL AND A CALL TO ACTION FOR INDUSTRY The Identity Theft Resource Center has been tracking publicly-available disclosures of data breaches since 2005 and reporting on it regularly, thanks to our sponsor, CyberScout. When we started, we knew it was important for us to aggregate this information, provide one central repository for analysis and obtain a greater understanding of this important part of our cybersecurity landscape, as well as inform us how we can better help identity theft victims.
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