In other cases, such as LinkedIn and LastFM, the impacts of underreported historical breaches were updated in 2016.
This is a common phenomenon, but one that stands out for this report given the magnitude of the breaches in question, including the Yahoo! hack, which took place in 20. It’s worth noting that, while disclosed in 2016, a number of the breaches reported last year were “historical” in nature, having occurred in earlier years.
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Elsewhere in the world, notable breaches of unstructured data affected a Canadian casino operator, Turkish police, European professional footballers, French Freemasons, a Polish internet service provider, voter databases in the Philippines, Indian government servers, the Kenyan ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Qatari bank (a breach that included intelligence reports on “people of interest”). Later in the year hackers succeeded in penetrating information systems at the Democratic National Committee. In April of 2016 more than 11.5 million documents stolen from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca were leaked resulting in criminal investigations in nearly 80 countries. One of the hallmarks of last year’s data breach activity was that political power and social justice were as likely to be motives for the hackers as the promise of financial gain. As that one instance of 1.5 billion compromised records illustrates, a single, successful attack can reap massive rewards for the attacker and be devastating to the victim. The average monitored client experienced 93 security incidents in 2016, down 48 percent from 178 in 2015.Īt first glance the decline appears to be good news, but the figures may indicate that hackers are relying on what they have found to be the most effective attack methods when targeting an organisation, yielding better results from their efforts. That figure represents only a three percent increase from 2015, while the number of attacks on those environments decreased by an average of 12 percent. Within our monitored customer environments alone, IBM X-Force recorded more than 54 million security incidents in 2016. The total volume affected by security failures for the year went beyond just the structured credit card and healthcare data and included personally identifiable information (PII) and all types of unstructured business information. IBM X-Force researchers found that more than 4 billion records were leaked during 2016, with one source alone accounting for more than 1.5 billion exposed records. The dubious distinction was earned in a year that saw the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record and a redoubled effort on the part of cybercriminals to attack businesses not only for their customer records, but for high-value intellectual property. This will not occur here, but trolls or abusers will not be tolerated.According to the 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, the number of records breached and the volume of data stolen during 2016 totalled more than the previous two years combined. I know that in the past there has been some fear of IBM "censoring" this subreddit. Additionally, is available for submitting reports directly to administrators. Please use the report button to bring Reddiquette-violating content, spam, and abusive behavior to the attention of moderators. Praise or criticism of the organization is welcome, but abusive behavior (including trolling or personal attacks on any other user), spam (self-promotion included), or memes (low-effort, low-quality posts) will be removed.
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