From credit card skimming to technology bugs to massive outright hacks, 2018 was one of if not the worst year on record in terms of data breaches that hit companies and hurt consumers around the world.
According to NordVPN digital privacy expert Daniel Markuson, when you tally up all of the most significant and worst data breaches of the year, the result you arrive at is the stunning fact that we learned more than 1 billion peoples’ data was potentially compromised at some point in 2018. Markuson notes in a review of all the breaches that “The scope of these attacks shows that even the biggest corporations are vulnerable and are prone to errors.
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Altogether, more than 1 billion people had their data compromised in 2018 originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 20:08:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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