{"id":3274,"date":"2020-03-16T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalogy.co\/blog\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:13:08","slug":"data-breaches-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-threat-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalogy.co\/blog\/data-breaches-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-threat-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Breaches – What You Need to Know About this Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.
– Ginni Rommety
<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cybersecurity is one of those areas in our digital world where overconfidence does not bode well for users, developers, and website owners. No matter how \u201cimpregnable\u201d your security protocols are, you need to be at the edge of your seat and up on your toes all at the same time for any vulnerability that may be exploited by cyberthieves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being ignorant of such attacks is even worse. Financial loss and identity theft result in these types of cyberattacks. In the figure below, we will see the top online banking vulnerabilities, most of which come from in-house applications making up 59% of the vulnerabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"DATA<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Image Source: <\/em>Positive Technologies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cybercriminals are relentless in exploiting the weaknesses in any system. Security experts have been on the defense to fend off these cybercriminals. Some of the most severe cyberattacks involved unbelievably massive data breaches in companies like Yahoo, Facebook, and even Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hackers attack every 39 seconds, and on average of 2,244 times a day<\/a>. Since 2018, security breaches have increased by 78%<\/a>. In 2019, the average time to identify a data breach was 206 days<\/a> out of the 314 days average lifespan of a data breach<\/a>. 94% of these malware infections were delivered by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that 81% of confirmed data breaches are according to password weaknesses?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A data breach is the release of confidential information into an unsecured environment. It is also identified as information leakage, data spill, data leak, or unintentional data or information disclosure.
<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dangers of a Data Breach – <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n