Recent data from Risk Based Security revealed that the number of records exposed has increased to a staggering 36 billion in 2020. 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.”
There were a number of notable data breaches that took place this year. But the compromise of the Twitter accounts held by several high profile celebrities probably garnered the most headlines, says Chris Hallenbeck, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Americas at Tanium.