BREACH LEVEL INDEX...
Every day, nearly 4000 cyber attacks are bound to occur globally and in 2019, there was a record of 1.79 billion hacked user accounts. In 2021, researchers found that 1 in every 2 American users suffered an account breach. Anyone can be the victim in today’s interconnected digital landscape where our personal and financial information is just a few clicks away. Therefore, ensuring robust online security has become more critical than ever before.
Every day, nearly 4000 cyber attacks are bound to occur globally and in 2019, there was a record of 1.79 billion hacked user accounts. In 2021, researchers found that 1 in every 2 American users suffered an account breach. Anyone can be the victim in today’s interconnected digital landscape where our personal and financial information is just a few clicks away. Therefore, ensuring robust online security has become more critical than ever before.
North America was the continent most affected by data breaches in 2015, accounting for 1,287 or 77 percent of breaches in the world
Accidental loss of data
records accounted for 36% of
all records lost (257.7 million)
due mainly to the United States
government’s loss of more
than 191 million voter records.
There were 238 incidents last year exposing more than 46.3 million records
State-sponsored attacks totaled
33 in 2015, for 2% of the total.
These breaches involved 107.7
million records (15%). It’s notable
that the number of records is fairly
high given the relatively low number
of state-sponsored breaches.
Hacktivists conducted 36 attacks (2.1% of
the total), which accounted for
30.6 million records exposed
