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The business sector was the leader for the number of data breaches in March 2018 with 45 breaches. These are breaches that are confirmed through media sources and/or notifications from state governmental agencies. The medical/healthcare industry had the second highest percentage of recorded breaches at 21 percent (19 breaches).
Both the business sector and the education sector saw an increase in breaches in March over the prior 2 months.
Looking at the method of compromise, hacking attacks represented nearly one-third of the breaches during the month of March. Of these incidents, 46 percent involved placing ransomware on the system and 36 percent identified phishing as the attack method.
Unauthorized access hit the financial industry the hardest in March with 77 percent of the breach notifications in this sector citing this as the cause of the breach. This compares to 32 percent in the medical sector and 31 percent in the business industry.
Employee error/negligence/improper disposal/loss made up 14 percent of the overall total of breaches in March.
Florida Virtual Schools announced a breach affecting students, parents, and teachers. The cause of this data breach involved a server that was misconfigured exposing a wide range of personal identifying information including, but not limited to: some current and former teachers’ social security numbers, names, contact information, date of birth, demographic and emergency contact information.
Orbitz contacted several Attorneys General offices regarding the hacking of its travel booking platform Orbitz.com. This incident exposed 880,000 records including full name, payment card information, date of birth, phone number, email address, physical and/or billing address and gender.
Under Armour notified customers regarding a breach of its MyFitnessPal platform. Usernames, email addresses, and passwords of 150 million users were exposed as a result of this incident.
An important note to remember when it comes to cybersecurity and data breaches is bad actors persistently and effectively execute attacks, and you are a target. All you can do to avoid data breaches is have a cyber defense that prepared, ready, and able to thwart the enemy’s attacks.
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