Here are the 10 Facts You Should Know About Online Data Privacy
10 FACTS – Listed here are the 10 facts you should know about securing your online data privacy.
An unauthorized invasion into a network or a computer is called hacking. The person who initiated this kind of exploit is “hackers”.
They find this as a very rewarding and challenging activity. Some of them do it for illegal purposes like hacking the servers of a company and steal a large amount of money.
Following a previous article, the pawnshop Cebuana Lhuillier recently suffered a nationwide data breach. They immediately take action and informed their customers that they went offline to minimize the harm.
Several countries marked last Monday as the Data Privacy Day or Data Protection Day. It aims for people to be aware of their internet safety.
Based on a report from ABS-CBN, these are the 10 facts you need to know about online data privacy:
1. Less than 60 percent of countries have laws to secure the protection of data and privacy.
2. Europe’s data protection regulators have received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches since the adoption of a landmark EU privacy law in May.
3. More than one in two respondents to a 2018 global survey by pollster CIGI-Ipsos said they had grown more concerned about their online privacy compared to the previous year.
4. Almost 40 percent of respondents to another survey by cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab said they did not know how to protect themselves from cybercrime.
5. A survey of tech professionals by security key maker Yubico suggested experts might not live up to safety standards. It found almost 70 percent of respondents shared passwords with colleagues.
6. More than half reused an average of five passwords across their work and personal accounts.
7. About 4 percent of people targeted by an email phishing campaign would click on it.
8. In 2017, almost 17 million U.S. consumers experienced identity fraud – the unauthorized use of personal information, such as credit card data, for financial gain.
9. Data breaches carried out by hackers are expected to go up 22 percent annually, exposing some 146 billion records, including personal information such as name, address and credit card numbers by 2023.
10. Data breaches cost companies worldwide almost $4 million on average for every incident.
According to the report, Data breaching has been a growing concern for large companies and regular people around the world. Hope these 10 facts helped you to secure your data info in the future.
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