Data breaches up 100% in 2019 over 2018

[trango]

2019 saw more than double the data breaches in 2018. Are data breaches increasing that rapidly or are we just getting better at identifying them?

[craftinator]

I'd like to remind HN that a number of US politicians and institutions are currently laying the ground work for making the use of strong cryptography illegal. If they succeed, will we see an increase or a decrease in the number of sensitive data breaches? Here's a short list of the anti crypto nuts, feel free to add on: James Comey (FBI Director) Christopher Wray (FBI Director) William Barr (Attorney General) Ted Lieu (Rep California) Blake Farenthold (Rep Texas)

Remember their names when you vote!

[ericalexander0]

Catalog of breaches here: https://ericalexander.org/SecurityBreach/#/

[buboard]

since GDPR went in effect (mid-2018) there are consequences for not reporting breaches, and it's evident in the data. Would be interesting to have a geo breakdown

[notlukesky]

Which source is that?

And one can posit that unknown data breaches are up 900%

[AshwinDurairaj]

Agree with you, it's impossible to compare numbers of data breaches. It's possible to compare reported data breaches, but every source is different, as its almost impossible to collate every single one reported or known.

[askafriend]

Are the breaches up or do we have better detection and reporting?