Security News > 2020 > May > Total number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 down 58% compared to last year

The total number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 has decreased by 58% compared to the same period last year, Risk Based Security reveals.

Publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 drop dramatically compared to 2019.

"Although the total number of publicly disclosed breaches in Q1 2020 dropped dramatically compared to 2019, this should not be interpreted as a decline in breach activity," commented Inga Goddijn, Executive Vice President at Risk Based Security.

"Once the dust settles, we anticipate the number of reported breaches will be on par with, if not exceed, 2019.".

"The increase in records compromised was driven largely by one breach; a misconfigured ElasticSearch cluster that exposed 5.1 billion records. But even if we adjusted for this incident, the number of records still increased 48% compared to Q1 2019" commented Inga Goddijn, Executive Vice President at Risk Based Security.

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