27001 Academy is an online learning center where you can get training and documentation for implementing the international standard for information security management, ISO 27001. The company has created a fascinating infographic showing the state of data breaches in 2014.
Here are some of the stats from the graphic.
2014 saw an increase of over 27.5% in data breaches in the U.S.
Total incidents in 2014: 783
Total incidents in 2013: 614
2014 vs. 2013: 27.5% increase
Although the number of breaches increased, the reported number of compromised records declined by 7.1%.
Total records in 2014: 85,611,528
Total records in 2013: 91,982,172
2014 vs. 2013: 7.1% decrease
For banking and government sectors, the risk of experiencing a data breach was higher than ever, with a 50% to 80% increase in security incidents in the last year.
The healthcare sector also saw a persistent and growing threat of breaches - it was the most affected of all the industries.
|
Organization Type |
No. of incidents (2014) |
No. of incidents (2013) |
|
Banking/Credit/Financial |
43 |
34 |
|
Business |
258 |
195 |
|
Educational |
57 |
54 |
|
Government/Military |
92 |
60 |
|
Medical/Healthcare |
333 |
271 |
The Anthem breach certainly highlighted the escalation in data breach for health-related businesses. And as I noted in yesterday's post, medical data is selling for far more on the black market than credit card data.
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