Breaches down 51%, exposed records set new record with 36 billion so far

The number of records exposed has increased to a staggering 36 billion. There were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, with the three months of Q3 adding an additional 8.3 billion records to what was already the “worst year on record,” Risk Based Security reveals. “The quagmire that formed in the breach landscape this Spring has continued through the third quarter of the year,” commented Inga Goddijn, Executive VP at … appeared first on Help Net Security.