Equifax's recent breach may be just a drop in the data-breach bucket by the end of 2017, according to new research out this week from digital security company Gemalto.
The Amsterdam-based company reported that 918 data breaches compromised 1.9 billion data records worldwide during the first six months of this year — a rate that works out to more than 10 million records a day and 122 records every second. Overall, the number of records exposed rose 164% in the first half of the year, it said.
For the most part, malicious outsiders were to blame for the breaches, but the data also suggested that malicious insiders are a growing threat: The number of records they compromised ballooned over 4,000% in the first half of the year to 20 million.
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