Assignment: Data Breaches
Go to the website: https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-
breaches-hacks/
This chart has data breaches for 2004 2020. As you can see
from the chart that data breaches increases drastically since
2004. If you move the cursor to the circle of the data
breaches, you will get a highlight of the data breaches, and if
click on the circle, it will take you to the details article
regarding the data breaches.
Your assignment is, pick 3 different industry sector data breaches (use the filter to choose one
data breach for each sector) from 2016 2020, and answer the following questions for each
data breach:
1. What data records were lost?
2. How data breaches occurred (what methods did the hacker
used to break into the system)
3. What steps did the company did (should do) to prevent this
from happening in the future?
In addition to 3 different data breaches, you also need to write a
Summary/Conclusion:
How does this visualization help you with the understanding of
information security threats?
What methods are you using to protect your personal digital
data?