With most data breaches, cybercriminals want to steal names, email addresses, usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers. Broken or misconfigured access controls.
Common cyberattacks used in data breaches include the following: Rather, a data breach comes as a result of a cyberattack that allows cybercriminals to gain unauthorized access to a computer system or network and steal the private, sensitive, or confidential personal and financial data of the customers or users contained within. Unlike most of the other topics we’ve covered under Cybersecurity Basics, a data breach isn’t a threat or attack in its own right. Not to mention the data of hundreds of millions of people like you who had the bad luck of doing business with a company that got hacked.
The criminals responsible will have enjoyed unfettered access to databases full of valuable data-your valuable data. By the time the security failure is discovered and fixed, the damage is already done. It takes another 69 days to remediate the data breach.
According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach study, a data breach goes undiscovered for an average of 197 days. In many instances, an organization or company won’t even know they’ve been breached until years later.
The list of companies that were hacked by cybercriminals reads like a who’s who list of the world’s biggest tech companies, retailers, and hospitality providers-and that’s only the data breaches that we know about. The Malwarebytes Labs blog called 2018 the year of the data breach.