Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile, MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023). But are we really conscious of the true scale of the threat? To find out, in 2022 we created a list of 700 companies worldwide from different industries: industrial, telecommunication, financial, retail, and others. Then we searched through Darknet trying to answer the question of “How likely these companies have suffered a breach?”.
In the course of this research, we found out that the prevalent posts revolved around the sale of compromised accounts, internal databases, and documents, along with access to corporate infrastructures. While the darknet does facilitate the sale of diverse data types, for example, bank card information, driver licenses and ID photos, etc., our focus in this article will be on the aforementioned three threats, which are particularly relevant to enterprises. As a result of our research, we found out that 223 in 700 companies were mentioned across Darknet in different data breach-related topics.
Distribution of industries, 2022 ( company mentioned darknet
