{"id":82,"date":"2018-10-17T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2018-10-18T05:46:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:46:44","slug":"291-breaches-per-second-what-the-records-dont-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/291-breaches-per-second-what-the-records-dont-show\/","title":{"rendered":"291 Breaches per Second? What the Records DON\u2019T Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/breachlevelindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemalto\u2019s Breach Level Index<\/a> was released, giving valuable insight into data breaches and some alarming trends:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Records per Breach is Growing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The general rise in the volume of lost records is alarming enough (1H 2018\u2019s figure is up 1,751% on 1H 2015), but what\u2019s really scary is the average number of records per data breach incident. It\u2019s growing quickly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015: 245.9m records across 999 incidents. That\u2019s 276,936 records per incident.<\/li>\n<li>2016: 554.5m records across 974 incidents. That\u2019s 569,255 records per incident.<\/li>\n<li>2017: 2.6bn records across 1765 incidents. That\u2019s 1.47m records per incident.<\/li>\n<li>2018: 4.5bn records across 945 breaches. That\u2019s 4.8m records per incident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where did the biggest breaches happen? On Social Media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook<\/strong>: 2,100,000,000 Records<\/p>\n<p>Facebook revealed that malicious actors could have abused its search and account recovery capabilities to scrape public profile information from most of its more than 2 billion users. As Facebook&#8217;s CTO Mike Schroepfer explained at the time, &#8220;Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we&#8217;ve seen, we believe most people on Facebook [over 2 billion users] could have had their public profile scraped in this way.&#8221; The tech giant responded by disabling the feature and changing its account recovery process to reduce the risk of scraping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> 336,000,000 Records<\/p>\n<p>Twitter urged all its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a software glitch exposed their credentials in plaintext. The glitch involved the failure of Twitter&#8217;s hashing process to scramble users&#8217; passwords prior to writing them to an internal computer log, causing them to be recorded in readable text. According to Reuters&#8217; reporting on May 3, the social lnetworking service launched an internal investigation after discussing the issue, an exposure which one source said had persisted for &#8220;several months&#8221; prior to discovery<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the data DIDN\u2019T Tell You\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s missing? Where this data sits\u2026 you need look no further than your smartphone sitting on your bedside table. Over 51% of teens use their smartphones to access social media platforms. With the biggest breaches happening on social media platforms, what are the chances a breach with one of your company-issued smart devices could hamper your data-protection protocols?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to Do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Securely destroy outmoded laptops, smartphones, tablets. Update the software regularly and caution employees to NOT utilize social media on company devices. Ship n Destroy helps IT Departments scrub hard-drives and securely destroy smart devices for as low as $10 (in some cases, even FREE!) Learn more at <a href=\"http:shipndestroy.com\">http:shipndestroy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Gemalto\u2019s Breach Level Index was released, giving valuable insight into data breaches and some alarming trends: Records per Breach is Growing: The general rise in the volume of lost records is alarming enough (1H 2018\u2019s figure is up 1,751% on 1H 2015), but what\u2019s really scary is the average number of records per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/291-breaches-per-second-what-the-records-dont-show\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}