375 million customer records compromised in 2014

  • 30 July 2014
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Comment: These figures are staggering and are rising at a alarming rate.
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By/ HNS Staff/ Posted on 30 July 2014.
 
Between April and June of this year, there were a total of 237 breaches that compromised more than 175 million customer records of personal and financial information worldwide. For the first half of 2014, more than 375 million customer records were stolen or lost as a result of 559 breaches worldwide.


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The retail industry had more data records compromised than any other industry during the second quarter, with more than 145 million records stolen or lost, or 83 percent of all data records breached. Less than one percent of all 237 breaches during the second quarter were secure breaches where strong encryption or authentication solutions protected the data from being used.

“The numbers are pretty staggering. 175 million-plus records stolen in the second quarter means that data theft is happening at a rate of 80,000 records per hour. And until we start to do things differently it will probably keep on rising. Doing the same thing and expecting different results when it comes to your security strategy will continue to have painful outcomes," Tsion Gonen, Chief Strategy Officer, SafeNet, told Help Net Security.

 
Help Net Security/ full read here/ http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17182

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