Verizon released its "Data Breach Investigation Report for 2020," ZDNet reports. The telecommunications company analyzed 157,525 incidents and found 3,950 were confirmed data breaches. Of the reported incidents, 71% involved cloud and on-premise assets, which also accounted for 22% of breaches. One of the few attacks that rose compared to 2019 involved companies leaving private data in unsecured cloud services. Verizon Senior Information Security Data Scientist Gabe Bassett attributed the rise to increased reporting by those organizations.
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