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Avast Blog_Security News : Top 10 Biggest Data Breaches in 2018 - jasonX - 07 January 19 The whole world has been plague with data breaches that it is becoming an almost constant issue to everyone. As defined by wikipedia, A data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment. Other terms for this phenomenon include unintentional information disclosure, data leak and also data spill. Incidents range from concerted attacks by black hats associated with organized crime, political activist or national governments to careless disposal of used computer equipment or data storage media and unhackable source. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach Avast's Martin Hron shares us relevant information about the top 10 biggest data breaches that happened in 2018. Below are excerpts from the Avast Blog and pertinent links to more information. Read on below. Top 10 Biggest Data Breaches in 2018
There have been many, so let’s count down some of the year’s biggest data breaches. As we look back at the year, it’s impossible not to acknowledge the rampant data breaches that caused such chaos for what seemed to be all 52 weeks of the year. The secret and sensitive data of literally hundreds of millions of people has been torn open and exposed, then aggregated on various dark web lists for sale. Data breaches are a terrifying top trend in the cybercrime world that shows no sign of slowing any time soon. If your info has been compromised in one of these unfortunate events, we have covered how to survive a data breach, but there are many whose recovery from a breach was a nightmarish climb back to sanity. For the morbidly curious, let’s take a closer look at our top 10 data breaches of 2018. The interesting thing is, while some data breaches are deliberate attacks, others are simply neglected databases that security auditors find lying around the web like unguarded, unlocked safes. Our list contains some of each. In descending order, counting down some of the biggest data breaches of the year, what follows is the worst of the worst. Quote:#10 — Panera More Info HERE https://blog.avast.com/biggest-data-breaches Avast Blog https://blog.avast.com/ |