Data Breach Outlook: Finance Surpasses Healthcare as Most Breached Industry in 2023
While businesses might have become more prepared for direct cyberattacks, 2023 demonstrated that unfortunately a business is only as secure as the organizations within their environment. Third-party risk, which is to say any risk to an organization by external parties in its ecosystem or supply chain, was the headline culprit in 2023. This was greatly due to the extensive impact of the CLOP ransomware gang’s exploitations of the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability as well as the rise of social engineering attacks like business email compromise (BEC). Kroll handles thousands of incidents every year and saw evidence of this breach having a significant impact on the most breached industries. In this year's Data Breach Outlook, Kroll ranked which industries continue to top the charts. Read more.