{"id":100639,"date":"2019-08-24T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:52:14","slug":"8200000000-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/8200000000-data-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"8,200,000,000 Data Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8,200,000,000<\/a>2019 is on pace to be the worst year ever for data breaches<\/strong>. If things continue at the same pace 8.2 billion records<\/strong> will be exposed by the end of 2019. The threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security<\/a> reports<\/a> that during the first half of 2019<\/strong> over 4.19 billion records<\/strong> were exposed in 3,813 reported breaches between January and July 2019.<\/p>\n

\"Risk<\/a>Those numbers work out to more than 20 data breaches a day<\/strong>. Eight mega-breaches<\/strong> that exposed more than 100 million records were reported. These web-based breaches were primarily the result of leaving databases accessible<\/strong> to third parties and failing to protect<\/strong> them. Forbes<\/a><\/em> reports<\/a> that these misconfigured databases<\/strong> and services accounted for 149 of the 3,813 incidents reported this year. According to Forbes<\/em>, the mega-breaches exposed over 3.2 billion records<\/strong> and accounting for 78.6% of the total records exposed in the first half of 2019.<\/p>\n

Largest data breaches<\/h3>\n

The 10 largest data breaches for the first half of 2019 are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Verifications.io<\/a> (982 million<\/a>),<\/li>\n
  2. First American Financial<\/a> (885 million<\/a>),<\/li>\n
  3. Cultura Colectiva<\/a> (540 million<\/a>),<\/li>\n
  4. unknown organization in India\u00a0 (275 million),<\/li>\n
  5. unknown organization in China (202 million),<\/li>\n
  6. Dubsmash<\/a> (161 million<\/a>),<\/li>\n
  7. Canva<\/a> (138 million<\/a>),<\/li>\n
  8. Justdial (100 million<\/a>),<\/li>\n
  9. Mobile Drip<\/a> (80 million<\/a>), and<\/li>\n
  10. Unknown U.S. firm (80 million).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Verifications.io, First American Financial, and Cultura Colectiva breaches are ranked among the top 10 breaches of all time based on the number of records exposed.<\/p>\n

    \"DatabaseConsumer Affairs<\/em><\/a> says<\/a> the Verifications.io<\/strong>, an email marketing company whose misconfigured database<\/strong> exposed 982,864,972 names, addresses, and Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram accounts. The information associated with the breach includes email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, fax numbers, genders, IP addresses, and personal mortgage amounts. As a result of the incident, Verifications.io has ceased operations.<\/p>\n

    If you\u2019ve bought a house, particularly in California, another breach may impact you. First American Financial Corporation<\/strong> exposed 885,000,000 records. Consumer Affairs<\/em> writes that exposed data<\/strong> included real estate closing transaction records that contained names, Social Security numbers<\/strong>, phone numbers, email and physical addresses, driver\u2019s license images, banking details<\/strong>, and mortgage lender names and loan numbers.<\/p>\n

    Other interesting data breach infobits<\/h3>\n