How Badly are Data Breach "Whales" Impacting the Breach Trend Lines?
Shortly after posting “Data Breaches: So How Bad is it Getting?“, it dawned on me that it might be interesting to factor out the big “whale” breaches (e.g. Yahoo! in 2016 with 3+ billion compromised records) to get a feel for what “run rate” breach rate really is in terms of compromised records. So consider this blog post an addendum to that blog post.
Data Breaches – So How Bad is it Getting?
The number of breaches seem to be leveling off, but the number of compromised records is growing dramatically. And it is quite evident we need a federal law for breach notification.