As data becomes more and more valuable, data breaches are becoming both more common and more costly for businesses who store confidential or identifying data on the cloud. In 2019, data breaches exposed hundreds of millions user records — if not billions. The companies affected responded in different ways — some better than others. Each response provided lessons for cyber security professionals. Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest breaches from 2019 — and what security professionals can learn from them. Houzz: 48.9 million records Home improvement website Houzz was the victim of the first high-profile data breach of the…
The Biggest Data Breaches of 2019 and What We Can Learn from Them