adlrocha
@adlrocha
Many of you may have heard the news of the recent $1.4B hack to Bybit. This seemed as good an excuse as any other to focus my @BaselightDB Insight of the day on hacks and data breaches 🧵
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adlrocha
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Let's first have a look at how the number of data breaches and records lost have evolved globally throughout the years. We can see how there's an upward trend since 2004. There are some outliers and the trend is not as obvious as I would have expected https://baselight.app/u/adlrocha/query/evolution-in-number-of-breaches-and-records-lost
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adlrocha
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Maybe the dataset isn't as complete as I thought? In any case, I decided to go deeper into the data. What would you say is the most common method used by attackers? You guessed it, plain old hacks. https://baselight.app/u/adlrocha/query/data-breaches-by-method
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adlrocha
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But wait, to no ones surprise, the ones that end up disclosing the most sensitive data are "inside jobs" and "lost devices". https://baselight.app/u/adlrocha/query/data-breaches-by-method
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I wanted to wrap up my analysis checking what sectors have been more prone to be attacked. Again to no ones surprise web applications and government systems are the preferred for attackers, followed by finance. https://baselight.app/u/adlrocha/query/data-braches-by-sector
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And once again, which one has been the most effective method in all these sectors? Hacks! https://baselight.app/u/adlrocha/query/data-braches-by-sector
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