2023: Record Setting Data Breaches

2023 saw  2,365 more data breaches than the previous record in 2021. The total number of breaches of personal information was 3205 that impacted 353 million.

The T-Mobile breach was the largest affecting 37 million and then the Xfinity breach that impacted 35.9 million.

Why the increase? According to  James E. Lee, chief operating officer of the  Identity Theft Resource Center, ” Many professional cybercriminals supported by nation/states resumed stealing business and personal information after being more focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Professional cybercriminals and nation/state actors focused more on finding and exploiting zero day software flaws.”

Governing | 2023 Will Go Down for Record-Setting Number of Data Breaches