Cybersecurity threats by the numbers
Jack Dorsey’s Crypto Organization Suffers an Embarrassing Hack! Financial Data Compromised In 2016, 3B Yahoo accounts were hacked in one of the biggest breaches of all time. (Oath.com) In 2019, First American Financial Corporation leaked 885 million users sensitive records dating back more than 16 years (Upgard.com) In 2019 2/3rds of Facebook app datasets were exposed to the public Internet, over 533 million records (Upgard.com) In 2021 more than 700 million LinkedIn user information was posted for sale on the Dark Web forum (Upgard.com) In 2016, reported that hackers stole the information of over 57M riders and drivers. (Uber) In 2017, 412M user accounts were stolen from Friendfinder’s sites. (LeakedSource) In 2017, 147.9M consumers were affected by the Equifax Breach. (Equifax) According to 2017 statistics, there are over 130 large-scale, targeted breaches in the U.S. per year, and that number is growing by 27 percent per year. (Accenture) 31% of organizations have experienced cyber attacks on operational technology infrastructure. (Cisco) 100,000 groups in at least 150 countries and more than 400,000 machines were infected by the Wannacry virus in 2017, at a total cost of around $4B. (Malware Tech Blog) Attacks involving cryptojacking increased by 8,500% in 2017. (Symantec) In 2017, 5.4B attacks by the WannaCry virus were blocked. (Symantec) In 2017, cyber crime costs accelerated with organizations spending nearly 23 percent more than 2016 — on average about $11.7M . (Accenture) The average cost of a malware attack on a company is $2.4M . (Accenture) The average cost in time of a malware attack is 50 days . (Accenture) From 2016 to 2017 there was an 22.7% increase in cybersecurity costs . (Accenture) The most expensive component of a cyber attack is information loss, which represents 43% of costs. (Accenture) Ransomware damage costs exceed $5B in 2017, 15X the cost in 2015. (CSO Online) Massive data breach hits Capital One, affecting more than 100 million customers (social security numbers, banking information and more exposed!)
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