Company Data Breaches

On the news anymore it seems that you keep hearing about data breaches, mostly hacking! Ashley Madison is a more recent one that was high profile and got a lot of attention. Two other high profile data breaches were Anthem and OPM. Those are just the high profile ones. Here is a pdf of data breaches so far in 2015 http://www.idtheftcenter.org/images/breach/DataBreachReports_2015.pdf! I bet you didn't know that many companies were breached this year!

           

In 2014, we heard about Home Depot and the Target breach. The number of data breaches per year has increased from 2014. There seems to be a trend in that the data breaches per year keeps growing. Here http://www.idtheftcenter.org/ITRC-Surveys-Studies/2014databreaches.html they have a chart of how hacking has increased in the past seven years.

The number one reason why business are being hacked are because of lack of security. Why don't companies spend more money on security? You would think after all the hacks in the news, companies would invest more in their InfoSec division to prevent this lost. I think that companies are starting to realize how important information security is.

I will be keeping this blog updated with data breaches and why they happened as the weeks go on. I look forward to keeping track of data breaches and see how the trend develops. We will get to see if companies are hardening there security in the coming weeks.