Apple's security department: This year's information leakage has hit a new high, and hackers are showing a trend of huddles

IT Home reported on December 13 that Apple's security department, together with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently released the report "The Continued Threat to Personal Data: Key Factors Behind the 2023 Increase" to analyze this year's personal information leakage incidents, and the results show that personal information leakage incidents in 2023 will hit a new high.

Apple claims that there were 20% more personal information breaches in the U.S. between January and September than in all of 2022, and that global breaches tripled from 2013 to 2022, with 2.6 billion pieces of personal information compromised in the past two years.

▲ Image source A report released by Apple's security department

IT Home learned from the report that the reason for the record high of information leakage incidents is mainly because hackers use ransomware to attack major enterprises and organizations in the form of "huddles".

In addition, the researchers found that hackers exploited the vulnerabilities of suppliers to attack upstream enterprise organizations all the way, and because related suppliers usually deploy the same back-end management system, hackers only need to exploit one vulnerability to easily trace upstream and invade the company one by one.

▲ Image source A report released by Apple's security department

The report's conclusions emphasize that the business sector should respond to the growing risk of personal information breaches by employing protections such as "end-to-end encryption" to ensure that only senders and recipients can access and modify critical documents.

▲ Image source A report released by Apple's security department