Five Years of US Privacy Breach Data Tell a Story Security Leaders Cannot Ignore

Five Years of US breach data shows accelerating volume and scale of incidents driven by identity-based access abuse, vendor/supply-chain compromises, and large extortion groups; major events (e.g., Change Healthcare, MOVEit/Cl0p, ShinyHunters) demonstrate that attackers increasingly exfiltrate data from cloud/SaaS platforms using credential theft and exploit chains, producing larger breach sizes, regulatory exposure, and rising remediation costs.