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by Sharon D. Nelson Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Data Breaches in 2014 – An Infographic

February 10, 2015

27001 Academy is an online learning center where you can get training and documentation for implementing the international standard for information security management, ISO 27001. The company has created a fascinating infographic showing the state of data breaches in 2014.

Here are some of the stats from the graphic.

2014 saw an increase of over 27.5% in data breaches in the U.S.

Total incidents in 2014: 783

Total incidents in 2013: 614

2014 vs. 2013: 27.5% increase

Although the number of breaches increased, the reported number of compromised records declined by 7.1%.

Total records in 2014: 85,611,528

Total records in 2013: 91,982,172

2014 vs. 2013:  7.1% decrease

For banking and government sectors, the risk of experiencing a data breach was higher than ever, with a 50% to 80% increase in security incidents in the last year.

The healthcare sector also saw a persistent and growing threat of breaches – it was the most affected of all the industries.

Organization Type

No. of incidents

 (2014)

No. of incidents

 (2013)

Banking/Credit/Financial

43

34

Business

258

195

Educational

57

54

Government/Military

92

60

Medical/Healthcare

333

271

The Anthem breach certainly highlighted the escalation in data breach for health-related businesses. And as I noted in yesterday's post, medical data is selling for far more on the black market than credit card data.

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