2.6 BILLION PERSONAL RECORDS COMPROMISED BY DATA BREACHES IN PAST TWO YEARS — UNDERSCORING NEED FOR END‑TO‑END ENCRYPTION

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

The total number of data breaches more than tripled between 2013 and 2022 — exposing 2.6 billion personal records in the past two years alone — and has continued to get worse in 2023. Ransomware and vendor attacks contributed in a major way to the sharp increase in data breaches and resulting compromise of sensitive records. The number of ransomware attacks in the first nine months of 2023, for instance, was 70% higher than the same period in 2022.