An alarming report has just been published by the American cybersecurity company Tenable.
According to its findings, at least 40,417,167,937 miscellaneous data were hacked or lost in 2021,
Phoneandroid
reports on Wednesday.
This is an increase of 78% compared to 2020. “In 2021, 21,957 new exploits were awarded from January to November, an increase of 20% compared to 2020. compared to the 29 of 2020,” the report notes.
2021 was a big year in many ways…
In our 2021 Threat Landscape Retrospective Report, #TenableResearch took a look back at the #vulnerabilities and threats that made it another record breaking year for security teams.
Get all the details here: https://t.co/REjFTcfAt8
— Tenable (@TenableSecurity) January 19, 2022
Data stolen and then resold on the black market
There would never have been as many data leaks as in 2021, according to Damien Bancal, computer security expert from the Zataz blog.
Several causes have been mentioned.
Tenable highlights in particular the multiplication of attacks via ransomware.
These are malicious software capable of paralyzing a computer system before hackers demand a ransom, usually in Bitcoin.
In 2021, many companies have been confronted with this type of computer attack.
Result: thousands of data were stolen and then resold on the dark Web.
For example, the identity cards of 3,000 French people or the data of 39 million French people ended up for sale on a black market.
At the same time, big corporations such as oil pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline have seen their operations crippled by a ransom demand of millions of dollars.
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