2013 Data Breach Trends

2013 Data Breach at a Glance

1. There were 2,164 incidents reported through December 31, 2013 exposing 822 million records.
2. A single hacking incident involving Adobe Systems exposed 
3. The Business sector accounted for 53.4% of reported incidents, followed by Government (19.3%), Medical (11.5%), Education (8.2%), and Unknown (7.6%). 
4. The Business sector accounted for 73.9% of the number of records exposed, followed by Unknown at 24.5%. 
5. 59.8% of reported incidents were the result of Hacking which accounted for 72.0% of exposed records. 
6. 4.8% of the reported incidents were the result of Web related attacks which accounted 16.9% of exposed records. 
7. Breaches involving U.S. entities accounted for 48.7% of the incidents and 66.5% of the exposed records. 
8. 51.1% of the incidents exposed between one and 1000 records. 
9. Twenty-seven incidents have exposed more than one million records. 
10. Four 2013 incidents have secured a place on the Top 10 All Time Breach List. 
11. The number of reported exposed records tops 2.5 billion and the number of reported incidents tracked by Risk Based Security exceeded 11,200.
12. A review of all reported incidents shows a total of 31.3% of all incidents are attributable to insider activity vs. 2013’s 25.0%.

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/reports/2013-DataBreachQuickView.pdf