According to a recent report from Apple and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, the United States has witnessed a record-breaking surge in data breaches, fueled by increased attacks on third-party vendors and a rise in aggressive ransomware incidents.
The study, authored by MIT professor Stuart Madnick and released on Thursday, reveals a distressing trend, with data breaches more than tripling from 2013 to 2022 and compromising a staggering 2.6 billion personal records in the past two years alone.
The situation has further escalated in 2023, with the first eight months seeing over 360 million individuals affected by corporate and institutional data breaches. Alarmingly, one in four Americans had their health data exposed in these breaches during this period. The report also highlights an increase in ransomware attacks, surpassing the total for the entire year of 2022. In the first three quarters of 2023, ransomware attacks rose by nearly 70% compared to the same period in the previous year.
A survey conducted in 2023 among 233 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the healthcare sector across 14 countries revealed that 60% of organizations in the sector faced ransomware attacks, almost double the reported rate in 2021. The largest health data breach this year involved an email hacking incident reported by HCA Healthcare, affecting 11 million individuals.
Content was cut in order to protect the source.Please visit the source for the rest of the article.
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
Read the original article: