Data Breach 2024 List Of Episodes. Ransomware and the meteoric rise of extortion techniques accounted for a third (32%) of all breaches. Data of 750 million users was compromised and sold on the dark web, highlighting significant security risks.
Sdxcentral reports that the 2024 verizon data breach investigation report (dbir) paints a troubling picture of the current cybersecurity landscape, marked by the increasing exploitation of vulnerabilities as one of the main data breach gateways, the shift to extortion and the median loss associated with ransomware and extortion almost doubled. The month has seen some of the cruelest ransomware attacks, to say the least.
