Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks.
In this article, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape from the past three months, including the latest statistics and our observations.
This includes year-on-year comparisons in the number of publicly disclosed data breaches, a review of the most breached sectors and a running total of incidents for the year.
Overview
IT Governance discovered 237 security incidents between April and June 2022, which accounted for 99,019,967 breached records.
This represents an 11.5% decrease in the number of security incidents compared to Q4 2022 (266), but an increase in the number of breached records (75,099,482).
How security incidents are occurring
In compiling our monthly lists, we distinguish between breaches caused by an organisation leaking data by mistake (‘data breaches’) and those that are the result of criminal hacking (‘cyber attacks’).
We also place ransomware in its own category, due in part to the frequency of attacks and in order to differentiate it from intrusions that may be harder to detect, such as password breaches.
Separating security incidents in this way reveals more about how security incidents happen and who is to blame, as you can see in this chart:
Cyber attacks continue to be the most common type of security incident. In Q2 2022, we found 127 cyber attacks, which represents ..
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