Verizon just put out its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , and you could plausibly guess what it says : 2011 was a standard yr for hackers , and represented a huge statistical comeback . They compromised a aggregate of 174 million record , 100 million of those in activism / for - the - lulz ops by Anon , Lulzsec , and friends .
2011 in a nutshell , for the hacking community : The Sony boom wenton and on , AnonandLulzsectore up everyone in sight , and we arrest thebest - unfit hack rap videoin recent memory . Pretty solid year , right ? Well yes , for everyone but the folks who were counting on hackers to remain as boring as they had been .
https://gizmodo.com/hackers-spill-over-1-000-000-sony-pictures-online-accou-5807996
Verizon had hoped that the number of occurrences was on a lasting down trend : After the full bit of compromised records mount class after twelvemonth to a crazy 361 million in2008 , it dropped to 144 million in2009and just 4 million in2010 . That was while increasing the data sample distribution , too .
mitigate the crazy - high percentage of sympathetic , well - intentioned breaches is the fact that almost 75 percent of the time , victim were monish ahead of time that they were about to be obliterated .
We ’ve included an embedded copy of Verizon ’s whole news report below . But however you agitate it , the translation ’s pretty clear : Lock your sh*t up . [ VerizonviaForbes ]
https://gizmodo.com/how-the-gizmodo-crew-manages-their-passwords-5881219
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