Security News > 2021 > May > 85% of breaches involve the human element

The Verizon report examines more breaches than ever before, and sheds light on how the most common forms of cyber attacks affected the international security landscape during the global pandemic.

This year's report saw 5,258 breaches from 83 contributors across the globe, a third more breaches analyzed than last year.

Breach data showed that 61 percent of breaches involved credential data.

The updated report patterns explain 95.8 percent of analyzed breaches and 99.7 percent of analyzed incidents over all time, and should provide customers with a better understanding of the threats that exist, and how their organizations can best avoid them.

In financial and insurance industries, 83 percent of data compromised in breaches was personal data, whilst in professional, scientific and technical services only 49 percent was personal.

Asia Pacific - Many of the breaches that took place in APAC were caused by financially motivated attackers phishing employees for creds, and then using those stolen creds to gain access to mail accounts and web application servers.

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