Silicon Republic March 19, 2025
Flashpoint also reports that in a new trend this year, threat actors are increasingly targeting Russian organisations.
Threat actors compromised more than 3.2bn credentials in 2024 – a 33pc rise in numbers from the year before, according to a new report from cyberthreat intelligence platform Flashpoint.
Cybersecurity analysts identified 6,670 publicly reported data breaches last year, of which, more than 4,000 affected organisations in the US alone. This is followed by the UK at a distant second with 270 data breaches and Canada with 238.
These breaches were collectively responsible for exposing more than 16.8bn records, including personally identifiable information.
While the affected sectors were more or less equally distributed, the professional, scientific and technical services was attacked the highest...
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