"Number of Breached Records Soars 224% Annually"

In a new study, researchers at Imperva found that the volume of compromised records globally has increased on average by 224% each year since 2017.  There were more records reported as compromised in January 2021 alone (878 million) than for the whole of 2017 (826 million).  The researchers also found that there has been a 34% rise in the number of reported breaches over between 2017 and 2021 and a 131% increase in the average number of compromised records per incident.  Imperva is predicting that this year will see around 1500 data breach incidents and 40 billion records compromised.  Of the 100 biggest incidents that led to the compromise of records over the past decade, the researchers claimed 42% came from Elasticsearch servers, a quarter (25%) from AWS S3 buckets, and 17% from MongoDB deployments.

Infosecurity reports: "Number of Breached Records Soars 224% Annually"