According to Verizon’s recently released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, there were 5,199 data breaches in the past year, with social engineering attacks almost doubling and ransomware ...

Verizon just dropped its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and it’s a doozy. According to the 117-page report, the message is clear: things are getting worse.

Verizon was notified by SafetyDetectives's research team on February 8. The company has yet to respond on this matter. We've reached out for comment and will let you know if we hear back.

Source: Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report Twenty-four percent of breaches involved ransomware this year, continuing its long-term upward trend as a primary attack strategy.

According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, during the year ended October 31, 2024, there were 15% more third-party data breaches than the previous year (15%).

Verizon studied 12,195 data breaches out of 22,052 real-world security incidents collected between Nov. 1, 2023 to Oct. 31, 2024, from more than 100 data contributors globally.

Verizon, which is finalizing its $4.8 billion purchase of Yahoo, said late Thursday it was notified of the massive data breach at Yahoo only in the last two days.

SINGAPORE, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon Business today released its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), sounding the alarm on a surge of system intrusions across the Asia ...

--Verizon Business today released the results of its 16th annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 breaches. The median cost per ransomware more ...

Verizon Verizon's DBIR report is based on 81 contributing organizations in 81 countries. Verizon analyzed 157,525 incidents. Of those, 32,002 met quality standards and 3,950 were confirmed data ...

Verizon discovered the breach on December 12, 2023, nearly three months later, and determined it contained sensitive information of 63,206 employees. The data that was exposed varies per employee ...