"Data Breaches and Exfiltrated Data From Fortune 1000 Companies Rise by 7%"

According to a new report from the cybercrime analytics company SpyCloud, the amount of data breaches and exfiltrated data from Fortune 1000 companies on the dark web has increased by 7 percent year-over-year. As a result, organizations are at more risk of account takeover, session hijacking, fraud, and ransomware. The 2023 Fortune 1000 Identity Exposure Report examined the dark web exposure of Fortune 1000 employees in 21 industries, including technology, financial services, retail, and media. Researchers at SpyCloud found 27.48 million pairs of credentials containing the email addresses of Fortune 1000 companies and plaintext passwords, with over 223,000 exfiltrated by malware. The discovered passwords facilitated access to over 56,000 cloud-based applications, including leading enterprise email, single sign-on, payroll management, hosting, and collaboration tools. Researchers also found that 62 percent of Fortune 1000 employees who have been exposed multiple times reuse their passwords. In addition, 1.87 billion malware cookie records associated with Fortune 1000 employees were found, most of which are believed to have been exfiltrated by malware. This article continues to discuss key findings from the 2023 Fortune 1000 Identity Exposure Report. 

SiliconANGLE reports "Data Breaches and Exfiltrated Data From Fortune 1000 Companies Rise by 7%"