Global data breaches increased 70% in the third quarter of 2022, InfoSecurity Magazine reports, citing a study from cybersecurity company Surfshark. Of the 108.9 million accounts compromised, Russia saw the highest total of breaches with 22.3 million, followed by France, Indonesia, the U.S. and Spain. France had the highest breach density with an average of 212 accounts hacked per 1,000 people. Meanwhile, global event ticketing service See Tickets reported a “significant breach” of potentially hundreds of thousands of customers’ “personal and financial information” over a span of more than two years between June 2019 and January.
26 Oct. 2022
Report: Global data breaches up 70% last quarter
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