World's Largest Data Breaches

  • 6 August 2013
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Informationisbeautiful.net, a project dedicated to turning data into beautiful visualizations with as few words as possible, recently posted a big, bright, and colorful look into the world's biggest data breaches. Below is part of the infographic/diagram. To see the whole thing, in all of its glory, click here.
 
 


 
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Thanks Yegor it's just amazing the amount of Breaches. :@
 
Daniel
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What is interesting to note is that in general, the average size of the breaches does seem to slowly go down over time.  However, as the size of the average breach on the chart is doing down, the number of breaches per year is going way up.. and the total number of people affected up as well.
 
 
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And how about the one's we don't hear about? ++++++
 
Daniel

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