K-pop superstars BTS released Monday a teaser video of "Boy with Luv," the main track of the band's upcoming album "Map of the Soul: Persona," featuring young American singer and songwriter Halsey.
The 46-second video, uploaded on BTS' official homepage and SNS accounts at the start of Monday, begins with an image of Halsey in a ticket box. She hastily closes the box office and leaves the movie theater before briefly encountering BTS in front of the theater.
She previously released a photo of her meeting with BTS in Seoul in August last year, while she was in the South Korean capital for her local performance.
The teaser came ahead of BTS' release of "Map of the Soul: Persona" on Friday, which the band will world premier live on the famous American variety show "SNL" on Saturday.


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Clear Skies, Apex both have upcoming open houses to talk about project in Barre
By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 11 January 2019 at 11:59 am
There are two upcoming open houses for the community to hear about a proposed wind energy project in Barre.
Apex Clan Energy is proposing 47 turbines in Barre that would be 591 feet at the highest tip height.
Clear Skies Above Barre has concerns about the environmental and public health impact of the turbines. Clear Skies will host open house at the Barre Town Hall on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Clear Skies will present a map of proposed turbine locations, and discuss other issues including environmental and health concerns with turbines, why a PILOT payment plan isn't the best option for the community, "character and fitness" of Apex, and some pros of the project.
"Please join our community for pizza and conversations as we share our specific concerns about the proposed Industrial Turbines in the Town of Barre, Orleans County," Clear Skies said in an announcement about the meeting at the Town Hall, 14317 West Barre Rd. "Everyone is welcomed and encouraged to swing by. It will be a laid-back event, so stop in anytime between 1-3 p.m."
Apex also is hosting an open house at the Heritage Wind office at 49 N. Main St. in Albion. The public is welcome to meet Dave Phillips, Apex Clean Energy's vice president of environmental, at a dinner and open house on Wednesday from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Attendees are encouraged to ask environmental-related questions, and share feedback. Sandwiches and light refreshments will be provided.
Phillips oversees environmental-related activities for Apex's land-based wind and solar projects. He leads a coordinated effort with Apex's project development, business development, and asset management teams to carefully select greenfield sites; support the environmental aspects of project operations, sales, and acquisitions; and bring projects to market that are fully compliant with state and federal regulations, Apex said.
Important aspects of Phillips's role at Apex include overcoming permitting obstacles with respect to eagles and listed species and working proactively with consultants and regulators to find reasonable solutions for studies, impact avoidance, mitigation, and permitting when necessary.
He is a member of the board of the American Wind Wildlife Institute and serves on the Wind Wildlife Research Fund Advisory Council.

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TOKYO (AP) Japan's newly appointed Olympics minister insists donations made to his political support group were handled appropriately.
Toshiaki Endo, who was appointed as minister in charge of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last month, has quickly come under scrutiny over donations his fund-management group received.
Endo's group received $12,000 each from the chairman and the president of a meat company in 2013, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.
If the executives had used company money for the donations, it could be a violation of the Political Funds Control Law, but Endo said the money was given as ''contributions from individuals'' and the company chairman said company money wasn't used.
Japan's top government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, told a press conference that he sees ''no problem'' with the donations.


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To kick off the new year with some pool time, the University of Utah dive team will be headed to Los Angeles to partake in the UCLA diving invitational.
This three-day event will feature some of the top divers from Utah, as well as the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California Berkeley. Both the men's and women's squads will be competing this weekend.
The last appearance from the Utes was on Dec. 1, when the diving team hosted the Utah Diving Invitational. The team placed multiple divers in the finals on each day of the competition.
On day one, four athletes ended up in the finals. On the women's team, Emma Ruchala and Clare Greenlow found themselves in the three-meter finals in sixth and fifth place, respectively.
Daniel Theriault and Luke McDivitt both ended in the top ten for the men's one meter. Theriault came in sixth, while McDivitt ended in third place. McDivitt's score of 335.30 was the seventh best score recorded in school history.
For the men's team, Daniel Theriault was the only competitor on day two, and he landed in fifth place with a score of 284.10 in the three-meter. For the women's three-meter, both Clare Greenlow and Emma Ruchala made the finals, placing sixth and seventh respectively with scores of 246.25 and 245.05, respectively.
Overall in the first half of the season, the Utes are 1-4 for women's, and the men's team are 2-2.
The 7-0 UCLA women's dive team is coming off of an overall victory against Harvard last week. The divers came out strong and the Bruins saw athletes in the top three in each event.
The Golden Bears will be bringing both a men's (2-0) and a women's (3-1) team to the meet. The program walked away from San Jose State with a win in early December, and that was the last competition the team saw in 2018.
Most recently, the Utes were ranked nationally by the most recent College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America poll. The Utah men's team falls into No. 19, while the women's team comes in at No. 27.
These rankings are well deserved, as Ute athletes have had a strong record-breaking year with 10 school records shattered, and they have been a part of two relays which rank in the top 10 for fastest times in the nation.
The Bruin Invitational will kick off on Friday, Jan. 18 and will run through Sunday, Jan. 20 at Spieker Aquatics Complex in Los Angeles California.


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More Than the Message
Media, Safety and Attribution in Online Activism
by Sydette Harry on June 30th, 2014
We aren't all in this together.
The risks, rewards, and danger for bringing about any kind of major change is weighted on prejudice, access and sometimes sheer luck.
The perception that we can form an amazing bond stretching across class, culture and geography to create moments of fantastic affinity through hashtags, fundraisers and shared emotion: find the message, get it out and get everyone on board. It sounds idyllic, it plays simplistic. The rush to get "the message" out ignores the real consequences of safety, power and sustainable support. PR management of these moments of affinity become more important than the policy shifting.
CC-BY Eric Fischer, filtered.
In a new media landscape where the old school values of racism, classism, and sometimes well-intentioned but utterly selfish savior complexes run rampant, the necessary care to protect the most vulnerable is slipshod at best, if not absent altogether.
Social Media and The News Cycle Frenzy
Social media provides an amazing stage for some of the best and worst examples of the dangers of ready-made affinity. A hashtag starts, a particularly sharp tweet is made. It can circle around the world in less than a baseball inning.
A wonderful way to focus shared interests, the actual substance of the phenomena has often been ignored in the news cycle frenzy. The most recent news-worthy hashtags have been started largely by women of color responding to an event or discussion in tightly knit and highly active groups. Most importantly, those groups provide each other with support not just to the message of the hashtag but to the creators and sustainers of it. Proliferation of hashtags has not lead to a proliferation of the support structures or of their original intent. Rather than serving as parts of a movement toward accountability and camaraderie, they become flash points of opportunity to be "relevant." My blog/org/media site never misses a moment, rather than joining in to collectively develop responses to a shared experience.
While the desire to be relevant isn't always a bad impulse, the desire to do so without acknowledgment of context can have powerful consequences. The hashtag #yesallwomen, started by @gildedspine has been a case study in the best, worst and most mundane of social media messaging. Started as a response to the Elliot Rodger shooting, the hashtag had over one million tweets in one weekend.
What it did not have was proper attribution. In posts from People and Time, gildedspine was not mentioned at all. Most distressing was that, while unattributed publicly in many spaces, the hashtag's originator was still being harassed and subjected to misogynistic and racist violence, to the point that she requested being removed from other stories for her safety.
While the powerful stories about the fear and danger women face simply existing in the world were talked about as a movement, the subsequent abuse of women responding to abusive ideologies was not worthy of consideration — to the point that even the person who ignited this moment had to reconsider participation for her own safety.
Message-Focused Movements
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Over the course of writing this article, the problems of a message-focused movement were made abundantly clear. User @yesaiiwomen, who stylized the handle to appear like #yesallwomen, had amassed 33K followers and started a mailing list for a website that the hashtag's creator knew nothing about. Selling t-shirts, collecting money for the launch of a 501(c)(3), without a single call back to the original circumstances of the hashtag, the safety of the individual who started it, or safety of women in the original context.
When confronted with the disturbing discrepancy, the user made a reference to their good intentions and future plans, not the very real issues of respect for authorship, the spirit of the original campaign or the safety of its originator. After all, there is a story to be told, a movement to be made.
This sort of ideological falsehood was even more evident in a hashtag that developed from the media coverage of #yesallwomen. #Stopclymer arose after a contributor to the Huffington Post and Policy Mic was found to have been abusing and insulting women under the guise of feminism. If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, then you aren't alone. As Clymer was questioned, inquiries to his editors went unanswered.
What was shocking was that Policy Mic then published a positive, complimentary list of 37 male activists to "Show Us What Real Men's Activists Look Like" and included Clymer on it. When confronted, their silence was deafening. When finally addressed, no mention was made of the accusations or the delay. Although the list is now noted as having been edited, and Clymer has been removed, why or how goes unmentioned.
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Even in a moment for the protection of women, the illusion of a "unified" and diverse movement is more important than telling the complete story of how it was actually accomplished. Rather than telling the story of how social media was used to provide safety through #yesallwomen and responding to Clymer's questionable credentials, Policy Mic quickly showed Clymer the door, dismissing him as a "freelancer" – after all, freelancers are no one's responsibility and not indicative of policy or lack thereof in the "movement."
I use freelancer here to describe the transactional "piece by piece" of new media "moments." Sparked by a video, an article or a hashtag, media production around activism is isolated from the conditions that inspired it — through no fault of the original creators. In the media "moments" around online activism, if you are participating you are "in." Sharing in the media moment is mistaken for doing the work of examining the conditions. Someone who says all the correct things, like Clymer, is insulated from critique about DOING all the wrong ones.
Conversely, as these "moments" are separated so quickly from those who create them, no one feels any responsibility for cultivating the results they claim to desire. Troubling interactions, when made public and complained about, are "not our problem" according to media outlets in the midst of a frenzy.
Media and Money
But what happens when opportunistic freelancers aren't just excited leftists or misguided pickup artists? What happens when these "good intentions" are backed with the full power of media and money?
In the case of #BringBackOurDaughters / #bringbackourgirls, Rana Mosley and the handle @girlrising appropriated the hashtag to bring attention to her own documentary, going so far as claiming to have started the movement. Profiled by CNN, who paid 500K to air her documentary, Mosley's claim was eventually modified to "independently launched a social-media effort".
While such splitting of hairs is bothersome, more troubling is the pledge @girlsrising took to donate to a list of Nigerian charities — donations that still had not materialized WEEKS after. For a media moment she claims to have started, when held to accountability it became magically silent.
Mosley's reasoning was that she saw no coordinated campaign behind #BringBackOurGirls, even though Nigerians had long been discussing and using social media to raise awareness. The fact that it was active and was being pushed by the people most affected was not good enough, or it didn't occur to her to look for it.
This ignorance of social media and the consequences for its more impassioned users becomes a place of authority when backed by access. Even more troubling, it becomes an echo chamber. Mosley, Policy Mic, @yesaiiwomen can USE the affinity created around online activism, can CLAIM to do good and build a connection, but they do not take any responsibility for the results, or for the work done in their name. The story has to be told by SOMEONE. We're getting exposure for the cause! We're all just freelance here.
But all too often, these "stories" comes from a blatant disrespect and almost targeted critique of the very people they claim to represent… all while insisting that those people are too naive to critique them. In the past few weeks, experienced writers Jessica Luther and Shanley Kane (editor, Model View Culture) were instructed in how journalism works by media outlets building "stories" around their work and experiences. Luther, a prominent TX reproductive justice activist was adroitly lamenting the rush of non-local reporters being commissioned to speak about Texas while ignoring the media generated by Texas itself. Rather than accept that it was a valid concern about how media was failing the women of the state and then eulogizing them prematurely, many argued that someone has to tell the story, even as the voices of the women of Texas were actively erased through all the national "exposure."
Kane's interactions were much more disconcerting, especially in the wake of the violence and abuse that have mounted as hashtags receive attention. Protesting invasion into pre-determined boundaries, Kane was baited as being unaware of how reporting works and paranoid by a reporter profiling her.
Rather than being believed or respected, women are harangued and abused by people who less than two weeks earlier passionately participated in hashtags like #YesAllWomen. So while a message of women's personal defense was great for hits, an actual practice of safety and respect for them was totally absent when it made observers uncomfortable.
Getting to the Meaning
This talk-a-good-game policy results in ever-mounting rugs with ever-growing things swept under them. As much of the left defaults to a "freelancer" attitude of polishing an important history for optics rather than purposefully developing methods of support, big business, government and anti-feminists have committed to deeply researching how marginalized voices shape social media space. FEMA has an open position for a Digital Communications specialist, based on understanding and activating online communities.
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Even large companies have started posting openings for media jobs for people who "get" the new social media landscape, while those who generate these moments both specifically and demographically (WOC, non-tech insiders) are unrepresented and unpaid. Meanwhile, the hashtag #Yourslipisshowing has been created by @sassycrass and curated to block sock puppet accounts from a coordinated troll/interference attempt by members of #4chan, and it is already being attacked.
If the reasons for hashtags are to become more than media blips, the people who generate them and the struggles they face must become more than "PR problems" and move into strong indicators of policy. If we want a media that does more than just reify extant prejudice, knowing how journalism works must be a precursor to discussions on how to change the worst aspects of it, not reason to attack women who find ways to defend themselves against its status quo.
If you clamor to be part of the moment, you should clamor to be part of the movement. When media impact is public and visible, moments of shared affinity can not be mistaken for moments of shared consequences. These moments arise because of imbalances of power, systematic oppression and violence. If they are to become real change, HOW we use them — the mechanisms, the safeguards, the community around them — must become more important than being seen using them in the latest media cycle.
We've proven we can handle the message. What we need now is the meaning.
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Five named to All-IIAC Softball Team
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Led by first team picks Brianna Chaplin and Riley Fisher, five Simpson softball players were voted to the 2015 All-Iowa Conference Softball team, as announced by the league office.
Following a vote of the league's coaches, Chaplin – a freshman outfielder – and Fisher – a junior pitcher – landed on the first team. Junior catcher Tori Haag and senior outfielder Stacie Brown earned second team honors and senior second baseman Ashley Prettyman was an honorable mention pick.
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Chaplan (Indianola, Iowa) burst onto the scene in her first Iowa Conference game, hitting a grand slam against rival Central. From there, she went on to lead the team in batting average (.464), slugging percentage (1.036) home runs (4) and RBIs (15) in league play. She hit .395 overall with 18 RBIs and a team-best .814 slugging percentage.
A transfer from Des Moines Area CC, Fisher (Des Moines, Iowa) established herself as one of the top pitchers in the league, going 13-5 with a 2.69 ERA and three saves. She was the Storm's most reliable pitcher in conference play, going 5-2 with four complete games in eight appearances. Her 2.55 ERA against conference competition ranked third in the league and her 46 strikeouts were second to Pitcher of the Year Amanda Witzlib.
A first team all-conference pick a year ago, Haag (Waukee, Iowa) had another banner season behind the plate. In addition to directing one of the conference's top pitching staffs, Haag led the team in batting average (.403), home runs (10) and RBIs (36). One of the most feared hitters in the IIAC, Haag led the team with 16 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI efforts.
Despite missing four games due to injury, Brown (Des Moines, Iowa) was a steady presence in the Storm's lineup. The senior hit .309 with five doubles and eight RBIs and didn't commit an error in 24 chances in right field. She was also one of the team's toughest players to strike out, fanning just nine times in 97 at-bats.
The program's career doubles leader, Prettyman (Des Moines, Iowa) earns the second all-conference nod of her career after taking home second team honors in 2013. In just three seasons since transferring to Simpson, Prettyman has 37 doubles, including a team-high nine this season. She finished third on the team with a .330 batting average in 2015, adding two triples, four home runs and 20 RBIs. In her first season as a second baseman, Prettyman committed just one error in 49 chances in conference play.
The softball team earned an at-large berth in the NCAA Division III Championship and travels to Bloomington, Ill. for a four-team, double-elimination regional this weekend. Simpson is making its 15th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and first since 2010.
IIAC MAJOR AWARDS
Position Player of the Year: Abbey Strajack, CEN
Pitcher of the Year: Amanda Witzlib, LUT
Coach of the Year: Renae Hartl, LUT
FIRST TEAM ALL-IIAC
P Amanda Witzlib, LUT; P Riley Fisher, SIM; C Carli Radil, LUT; 1B Taylor Smola, WAR; 2B Abbey Strajack, CEN; 3B Jeanne Bramhall, BVU; SS Katie Sommer, WAR; OF Ashley Burrows, LUT; OF Andrew Smith, DBQ; OF Brianna Chaplin, SIM; DP Karlee Rock, CEN; UT Gretchen Lilienthal, COE; UT Meggie Schmidt, DBQ; At-Large Katie Wieland (SS), LUT
SECOND TEAM ALL-IIAC
P Mallor Schulenberg, CEN; P Megan Loes, LUT; C Tori Haag, SIM; 1B Alise Miller, LUT; 2B Marissa Schmidt, BVU; 3B Miranda McCay, LUT; SS Paige Schreiner, CEN; OF Lindsey Uphoff, LUT; OF Dani Stromert, LOR; OF Stacie Brown, SIM; DP Anna Strien, LUT; UT Haley Smith, COE; At-Large Katie Serpico, LOR; At-Large Whitney Sowers, CEN
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IIAC
2B Ashley Prettyman, SIM; SS Stephanie Hayden, BVU; OF Micaela Forsyth, WAR


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The Market is down 7 and above the 5000 mark on the ASX 200 and on the All Ords. Dow Jones was down 10. SFE Futures were down 7 this morning. The Dow was up 7 at best and down 61 at worst. There were disappointing fourth qaurter GDP numbers from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, and […]
The Market is down 7 and above the 5000 mark on the ASX 200 and on the All Ords. Dow Jones was down 10. SFE Futures were down 7 this morning.
The Dow was up 7 at best and down 61 at worst. There were disappointing fourth qaurter GDP numbers from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. All five countries saw their economies contract during the final three months of 2012. Fourth quarter eurozone GDP shrank 0.6% QonQ as a result. There was also some major M&A activity on Wall St. Best sectors — Energy (+0.5%) financials (+0.3%), health care (+0.2%), and consumer staples (+0.1%). Worst sectors — Telecoms (-2.0%) utilities (-0.9%) and materials (-0.4%). European market down — UK FTSE down 0.50%, German DAX down 1.05%, France down 0.78%, Spain down 0.71%, Italy down 1.00%. Metals mixed — Copper up 0.07%, Nickel down 0.60%, Zinc down 1.00%, Aluminium up 1.79%. Spot iron ore unchanged at $155.10. Gold down $10.30 to $1634.80. Oil up 32c to $97.33.
ANZ Q1 numbers fail to excite but rallied ahead of the result — Headline profit fell 20% to $1.36 billion but cash earnings are up 6.2% to $1.53 billion. Revenue volume growth in Asia was offset by margin pressures in New Zealand and the international and institutional banking division. See below for more. ANZ is down 0.68% to 2787c.
Rio Tinto (RIO) — Underlying $9.3 billion profit versus consensus of $9.1 billion. Company will look to cut costs and sell underperforming assets after posting their first ever net loss of $3 billion after $14.4 billion of impairment charges. Dividend up 15% and better than expected. Sam Walsh talks about a new mantra to deliver greater value to shareholders. See below for more. The stock ran hard into the results. RIO is down 2.34% to 7038c.
Paladin Energy (PPDN) — Revenue up 13% to $195.5 million. They recorded a loss of $172 million for the first half. PDN declined to pay a dividend in the half. The results included a one-off reversal in tax losses of $98 million and a $55m writedown producing an adjusted $19 million loss. See below for more. PDN is down 3.69% to 117.5c.
Sims Metal Management (SGM) — To record a charge of $354 million against goodwill and a writedown of $78 million on UK inventory. SGM is down 1.82% to 1076c.
Orocobre — Impressive $99 million profit on sale of part share on a project but only $7 million in sales — $3 million loss after you take out the one-off. But makes balance sheet look better. Patersons and has a BUY with a 240c target price. ORE is unchanged on 145.5c.
Patersons have a trading sell recommendation on Leighton Holdings (LEI) after the jump on good results and a rally from our trading buy recommendation at 1648c. Now 2337c.
After the good Downer EDI (DOW) results yesterday Patersons also say 'Trading sell'.
Myer (MYR) — Harris Associates has ceased to be a substantial shareholder.
JB Hi-Fi ex dividend 50c today.
Ex dividend on Monday — TLS (14c), CBA (164c), BKN (20c)
Results today — SGM, DUE, PDN, TEL, TGR, PXS, CQR, MTX.


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Віджай Бенедикт — індійський співак, найбільш відомий як виконавець заголовної пісню «I Am a Disco Dancer» у фільмі «Танцюрист диско».

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Бенедикт вивчав індійську класичну музику і закінчив аспірантуру з управління бізнесом. Його співоча кар'єра почалася в 1978 році, коли він заспівав «Nazar Lage Na Saathiyon» у фільмі «Des Pardes». Але пізніше цю пісню для Діва Ананда перезняли з іншими голосами. Чотири роки по тому в індійський чарт сенсаційно увірвалася «I Am a Disco Dancer» і відразу зробила Віджая зіркою.

З тих пір він став подорожувати з концертами по всьому світу і продовжив працювати в кіноіндустрії. Його голос добре підходив для Говінди, Джекі Шрофф і Ааміра Хана, але в основному він співав для Мітхуна Чакраборті і вважався його «голосом» в піснях.

Бенедикт заспівав майже в 40 фільмах Боллівуду, але відмовився від кар'єри через смерть молодшого брата, якого застрелили в Німеччині. Зовсім випадково його брат став свідком угоди з наркотиками, і був застрелений цими торговцями, після того, як поскаржився в поліцію. Смерть брата настільки вразила Бенедікта, що в пошуках відповідей він присвятив себе християнської релігії. З тих пір він співає християнські пісні.

Вибрані пісні
 Танцюрист диско (1982) — «I Am a Disco Dancer»
  (1984) — «Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki»
  (1985) — «Banu Ko Mil Gaya Janu»
  (1985)
  (1986) — «Hum Hain Naujawan»
  (1987) — «Dance Dance», «Aa Gaya Aa Gaya Halwa Wala», «Everybody Dance with Papa»
  (1987) — «Its My Challenge»
  (1988) — «O Mere Apne», « Maine Maine Tujhe», «Its a Dance Party»
  (1989)
  (1989) «Naachenge Gayengi»
 Sikka (1989) — «Blow Hot Blow Cold»
  (1989) — «We Are in Love», «Jeene Hai Pyar Main Jeena», «Main Tujhse Pyaar Karta Hoon»
 Naachnewale Gaanewale (1990) — «Aayi Naseebowali Raat»
 Yaadon Ke Mausam (1990) — «Dil Dil Hindustan»
  (1991) — «Tu Chaahat Hai Tu Dhadkan Hai»
  (1991) — «No Objection»
 Meri Jaaneman (1992) — «Romance Romance»

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Old Filth by James Gardau
Old Filth by James Gardau – This novel is the story of the life and death of Sir Edward Feathers, subject of the British Empire. He happened to be a barrister who went on to be a judge. The origin of his name is Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Although this moniker stuck with him and may have been hurtful although that was never mentioned. He was far from a failure. In fact he is an example of what the human spirit can accomplish no matter what kind of early childhood cards are dealt to you. But it is also a tale of the scars of early childhood.
Old Filth started off life by losing his mother 3 days after he was born outside of England. His father arranged for the wet nurse and her young daughter to take him in in their house. It was the teen age Malaysian girl who took care of him for his first five years and it seemed that he had no other parental figure. He was then sent to England to be raised by a foster family whom he felt never loved or cared for him. He did have a relationship with two young cousins who also were involved in this extended foster family. Those children who came from the far-flung Empire were known as Raj Orphans. His father a World War I veteran and an alcoholic, paid for his schools although he didn't visit him. As an older teen he felt at home with a school buddy's family on holidays. When World War II broke out, although he was almost of college age, his father arranged for him to be sent to Singapore because of concern about the German bombings in the same manner as younger children were being evacuated from Europe. That turned out to be an ill fated boat trip and although he had passed his entrance exams for Oxford, he enlisted in the army. He was assigned to a remote part of England to guard Queen Mary and amazingly developed a somewhat friendly relationship with her. Post war he pursued his education and then a successful legal career in Hong Kong where he even becomes a prominent judge
He was married to Betty for many years, but did not have any children. We ultimately learn that the marriage may not have been what he thought it was, as it turns out that she had an affair with a man who became a neighbor later in his life. What shines through this tale is that despite his great success and even a seemingly happy marriage (despite the few indiscretions by his wife), was a deep feeling of emptiness and frequently feelings of rejection. Much of the book focuses on his loneliness after his wife dies in their old age. The sadness of his reflections suggests that he always felt something was missing in his life. Could it be that he didn't have the love of parental figures when he really needed it?
While I found the numerous transitions back and forth to different stages in his life quite disruptive and distracting, it did allow for the reader to examine and understand his youth and middle years while being with him and seeing his life from his vantage point as an older man. I do admit for me at times these were tedious journeys.
This book is dealing with memories and the significance of past experiences. In this regard, the author reminds us how a single incident can stay with one for a lifetime even if that memory is a distorted one. This situation was described in just a few pages of one important event in Filth's life. This dates back to his preteen years where he and his cousins were with the foster mother whom they despised because of the way she treated them. They even spoke among themselves how they would like to kill her. Then in an incident at the top of a large staircase, the young Filth, struggling with her about something or other, pushes the foster mother and she falls down the stars leading to her death. In his old age, he wishes to confess this deed to a Priest in the presence of one his cousins, who had been there with him at the time of the incident. He relates how the foster mother was found dead at the foot of the stairs after he pushed her. The cousin mentions that actually the woman died the next day at the hospital and was found to have end stage cancer of which she would have died shortly anyway. Filth is stunned and says, "I never knew that!" How would his feeling have been different about himself and his life had he known he did not cause her death? How would all his trials and tribulations been different if he had been loved and listened to throughout his years?
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Apple has designated building an electric car as a "committed project" and has set a target shipping date for 2019, according to reports.
The project has been codenamed Titan and its leaders have been given permission to triple the 600-person team, the Wall Street Journal claimed.
For Apple, a "ship date" doesn't necessarily mean the date that customers receive a new product; it can also mean the date that engineers sign off on the product's main features.
Apple spent more than a year investigating the feasibility of an Apple-branded car, including meeting with two groups of officials in California to discuss regulation of self-driving vehicles.
Reports in August revealed that Apple was developing a car and studying self-driving technology, but it was unclear if the iPhone maker was designing a vehicle that could drive itself.
Mike Maletic, a senior Apple lawyer, met bosses at the California department of motor vehicles in August.
Apple has been consistently hiring car experts as part of its effort to build a team in automated driving.
Apple has hired Megan McClain, a former Volkswagen engineer with expertise in automated driving, and Vinay Palakkode, a graduate researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, a hub of automated driving research.
Apple also hired a senior engineer from electric car maker Tesla Motors, according to a LinkedIn posting.
If Apple does launch an autonomous car, it will go head-to-head with Google, whose self-driving cars have clocked up more than 1m miles since they first made it onto public roads since 2012.
Apple's shares rose 1.3pc to $114.98 on the Nasdaq.


By the middle of October, many students in our district are nearing the end of their first writing unit, and in almost all grades, that first writing unit has a narrative focus. Students are gearing up for information writing, and then later in the year, opinion writing. Sometimes, when we leave a genre, we forget about it. All the work, all the teaching, all the learning gets tucked into a back corner of cerebral cortex. I call it cognitive atrophy.
A great way to develop an informational section is to include anecdotes, and this is a strategy lesson I teach once students have their understanding of informational structure. This example comes within a lesson sequence that supports the concept of ways to elaborate informational writing because one way is to write a short story or an anecdote. For students who struggled with narrative writing and might not have mastered the concept of beginning, middle, and end, encouraging them to use anecdotes within their information writing is a great way to revisit that important narrative skill.
Quick Aside: * I loved what Melissa Stewart pointed out how boring common topics can be in her guest post on this blog, Passionate Nonfiction Writing Starts With a Question . I love the idea of launching a writing project with authentic curiosity, and there would still be opportunities for weaving in a story.
Students can also write letters within their information writing pieces. Letters often take the form of a personal narrative, telling what happened first, next, and finally. Our fifth-graders write informational pieces about explorers, and I love to read the letters they imagine explorers would have written as they sailed around the world.
Strong writers might want to take the challenge of writing a narrative nonfiction book. For example, if a child is writing all about soccer, that child could write the story of getting ready for a soccer game. If a child is writing all about the playground, that child could write a story about a child experiencing the playground for the first time.
Stories are powerful, regardless of genre, and I love finding ways weave narrative strategies into other units throughout the year.
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Isabelle is transitioning from narrative to informational writing in her class's writing workshop this week. Anyway, I will have to keep some of these things in mind when we're talking at home about the connections between the two kinds of writing.
Great reminders! Thanks for the concrete ideas!
Thank you for sharing ways to keep narrative writing alive. I appreciate the concrete examples you've offered here. We are about to do exactly what you wrote about at the beginning of your post…move on to informative writing. I plan to share your post with teachers at my building.
Great post! Incorporating narrative within a piece of informational writing will help students write a more interesting piece of work. When your students write their letters from the point of view of an explorer, do you require that they only use facts they can document with evidence? So, for example, a student can't write that Columbus felt sad unless he has proof that Columbus felt sad? As a former history teacher and now a writer of historical nonfiction for kids, I think it's important to teach students early about the difference between historical fiction and historical nonfiction. But sticking to the facts does not mean students can't be creative in how they communicate information. The mantra of show don't tell is as vital in nonfiction writing as it is in fiction, maybe more so.
Melanie, this is such an excellent post! As Drew Dudley from Leadership One said one time, "Story is the basic unit of human understanding." This post really brought that quote to mind, as teaching through story actually helps readers learn the material. I absolutely love your chart, "Ways to Use Information Writing in Informational Texts." So simple, yet powerful. I definitely plan to share this with my sixth grade teachers as they transition into informational writing in the coming weeks.
Thank you for your post! A brilliant, timely reminder that narrative stays alive throughout the school year. I just borrowed a book from the library about the revival of the wooly mammoth-it is a true account told in narrative format. My hope is that by broadening my genre base in reading, I will be able to better model how to use narrative in informational writing. Thanks for great photos of your demo notebook, too!


The geographic valley of the Cauca River is an extensive plain 240 km long and between 24 and 40 km wide that includes parts of the departments of Risaralda, Valle del Cauca, and Cauca in Colombia. From 1986 to 2009, botanists from the Universidad del Valle collected plants from this area. Their objectives were to find out which species of vascular plants are found in the remnants of native vegetation, what their pattern of distribution is within the geographic valley, what the original composition of the flora is, and which of the remaining forests deserve to be protected. These results are presented in this catalog, which includes 951 species of vascular plants, of which 578 (60.8%) are forest species. The authors estimate that the total flora (excluding cultivated plants) of the geographic valley includes approximately 2,000 species.


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116 Must-Know Data Breach Statistics for 2023
Data is rapidly becoming one of the most valuable assets in the modern world. The digital giants that monopolize data are arguably the most powerful companies in the world, prompting ongoing conversations about anti-trust legislation and digital privacy.
Despite the overwhelming value controlled by these entities, as we'll see, even companies such as Facebook are vulnerable to the byproduct of the rapid move to digitization – the data breach epidemic.
More and more companies are experiencing devastating security breaches.
Data breach statistics show us that cybercriminals are sophisticated and highly motivated by the rewards that come from financial and personal data.
It's also apparent that most companies are not prepared in the event of a data breach, despite them becoming more common.
We've compiled 116 data breach statistics for 2020 that covers types of data breaches, industry trends, risks, costs, as well as how to prevent them. We hope this will help you understand the importance of data security and why so many companies are allocating more of their budgets to preventing data breaches.
What is a Data Breach?
The U.S. Department of Justice defines a breach as "the loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, access for an unauthorized purpose, or other unauthorized access, to data, whether physical or electronic." Data breaches, according to a recent study by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, have an average cost of nearly $4 million globally.
Data breaches commonly involve financial information like credit card or bank account details, protected health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), trade secrets, or intellectual property. Other terms for data breaches include unintentional information disclosure, data leak, cloud leak, information leakage, or a data spill.
While the first you may think of when you hear data breach is a situation involving cybercriminals and sophisticated cyber attacks, careless disposal of computer equipment, human error, or a poorly configured S3 bucket are also common causes.
Read our full post on data breaches to learn more.
The Origin of Data Breaches
Data breaches have gained notoriety as businesses of all sizes are increasingly reliant on digital data, cloud computing, and a mobile workforce.
Not only have the number of records containing sensitive data increased, so has the average organization's attack surface. Sensitive data is stored in local machines, enterprise databases, cloud servers, and third-parties vendors.
This is why preventing data breaches through attack surface management and vendor risk management has become a top priority for CISOs and senior management including at the Board level.
With that said, data breaches didn't start when organizations began to store their data digitally. In fact, data breaches have existed for as long as individuals and companies have maintained records.
According to the Office of Inadequate Security website, in 1984 the global credit information corporation known as TRW (now called Experian) was hacked and 90 million records were stolen.
Before computing became common, a data breach could be something as simple as viewing an individual's medical details without authorization or finding sensitive documents on a desk instead of in a drawer.
However, the introduction of general data protection laws and data breach notification laws now means that regulatory and reputational costs are significantly higher than in the past.
Laws and regulations like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CCPA, FIPA, the SHIELD Act, and LGPD have created guidelines for organizations handling certain types of sensitive information.
While these regulations provide a framework for required safeguards, storage, use, and handling of sensitive information, they don't stop all data breaches from occurring.
These regulations provide a framework for the required safeguards, storage, and use practices for handling sensitive information, but these rules don't exist in all industries, nor do they definitively stop data breaches from occurring.
Because of this, most information about the number of data breaches and their impact focus on the period between 2005 to the present. Largely due to the advancement of technology and the proliferation of electronic data, which have greatly increased the total number of individuals impacted.
Today's data breaches often impact millions - even billions - of individuals.
How Do Data Breaches Occur?
Data breaches occur when cybercriminals are able to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. This can be achieved through physical access, or by bypassing security controls remotely.
Cybercrime is a profitable industry that continues to grow, largely due to the distributed nature of the Internet and the ability to attack targets outside of their jurisdiction, which makes policing it difficult.
While most data breaches are attributed to cyberattacks or malware, common cyber threats include insider leaks, identify theft, payment card fraud, loss or theft of physical assets, misconfiguration, and human error.
Ten common ways that data breaches can occur:
Vulnerabilities: An exploit takes advantage of software bugs or vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to a system or its data. Vulnerabilities are found by criminals and cybersecurity researchers alike and it's often a race to see who can find them first. Cybercriminals want to find vulnerabilities to exploit and install malware. Researchers want to find and report vulnerabilities to hardware and software manufacturers to have them patched. Cybercriminals may even package up multiple exploits into automated exploit kits to make it simple for criminals with no technical knowledge to take advantage of common vulnerabilities. Read our full post on vulnerabilities to learn more.
Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is a type of malicious software, or malware, designed to deny access to a computer system or data until a ransom is paid. Ransomware spreads through phishing emails, malvertising, visiting infected websites, or by exploiting vulnerabilities. One famous example of ransomware is the WannaCry ransomware. Read our full post on ransomware to learn more.
SQL injection (SQLI): A form of cyber attack that exploits a weakness in an SQL database of an insecure website to get the website to give access to information in its database without authorized access. SQLI attacks are unsophisticated and require minimal technical knowledge. Like automated exploit kits, cybercriminals often automate SQL injections.
Spyware: Spyware is malware that infects your computer or network to steal personal information, Internet usage, or any other sensitive data it can acquire. You might install spyware by downloading an email attachment or by what seems to a benign application (bundleware). Alternatively, spyware can be installed on your computer as a secondary infection from a Trojan horse. Once spyware is installed, all your data is send back to the command and control servers run by the cybercriminals. Read our full post on spyware here.
Phishing: Phishing attacks are a form of social engineering that aims to manipulate emotions or trick you into revealing sensitive information like usernames or passwords. A typical phishing attack is a spoofed (fake) email that looks like it's coming from the CEO of the company you work for. The email will contain aggressive or demanding language and require action like logging into a web page, verifying a payment, or making a purchase. Clicking any links in the email or downloading any attachments could result in your login credentials being stolen or the installation of spyware in a malware attack as mentioned above. SMS and social media attacks are becoming increasingly common too. More targeted forms of phishing are calling whaling attacks or spear phishing. Read our full guide on phishing.
Insecure passwords: Passwords that are easy to guess, such as dictionary words or common passwords, make it easy for cybercriminals to gain access to sensitive information. Your organization should enforce secure passwords and multi-factor authentication for any systems that contain sensitive information. To learn more about what makes a password secure, see our password security checklist.
Broken or misconfigured access controls: Even the best passwords and cybersecurity can be undone by poor configuration. For example, your organization may enforce secure passwords and two-factor authentication but have a poorly configure S3 bucket that is open to anyone on the Internet without a password. Check your S3 permissions or someone else will. If you're not secure by design, a cybercriminal using a few Google searches could find misconfigured folders and steal data.
Physical theft: Criminals may steal your computer, smartphone or hard drive to gain access to your sensitive data that is stored unencrypted.
Denial of service (DoS): Occurs when a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users caused by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. This is typically achieved by flooding the targeted machine or resource with fake requests in attempt to overload the system and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being received.
Third-party vendor breaches: Criminals can target third-party business partners or service providers to gain access to large organizations that may have sophisticated cybersecurity standards internally but a poor third-party risk management framework.
Historical Data Breach Statistics
The most well-known security incidents were recorded from 2005 onwards. This is because the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse recorded known data breaches in 2005. Since then over 9,000 have been recorded, however the actual number of data breaches is likely much higher as they source most of their data from state Attorney Generals and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These sources only focus on incidents involving U.S. citizens.
Below we have provided a list of data breach statistics that led up to and launched the age of the data breach.
In the early 1970s, the first known computer virus, the Creeper virus, was detected on ARPANET, a US military computer network that was the forerunner to the Internet (Viruslist.com)
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse began its chronology of data breaches in 2005. (Symantec)
The DSW Shoe Warehouse became the first data breach over one million records. (NBC)
Dongfan ''Greg'' Chung was charged with the longest insider attack which occurred from 1976 to 2006 and resulted in the theft of $2 billion worth of aerospace documents from Boeing. (FBI)
The first recorded mention of phishing is found in the hacking tool AOHell (according to its creator) in 1995, which included a function for attempting to steal the passwords or financial details of America Online users. (Mercury News)
25% of data requiring security was unprotected in 2015. (Statista)
In September 2017, Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, announced that its systems had been breached and the sensitive personal data of 148 million Americans had been compromised. The data compromised included names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver's license numbers. (Los Angeles Times).
Two-thirds of the people online have had their records stolen or compromised by bad actors by 2018. (CSIS)
Identity theft is the most common type of data breach incident, accounting for 59 percent of all global data breach incidents in 2016. (Statista)
Over the past ten years, over 300 data breaches have involved the theft of 100,00 or more records. (Forbes)
In 2019, the United States had 1,473 reported data breaches involving 164.68 million exposed records. (Statista)
In the first six months of 2019, more than 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches exposed over 4 billion records. (Forbes)
The World Economic Forum believes that large-scale cyber attacks are the fifth biggest risk facing our world. (World Economic Forum)
Biggest Data Breaches Statistics
Data breaches are becoming more common and more damaging and some of the most recent data breaches have been the largest recorded. Here's a look at the largest data breaches in history.
Yahoo holds the record for the largest data breach with an estimated 3 billion user accounts impacted. An investigation revealed that users' passwords in clear text, payment card data and bank information were not stolen. (The New York Times)
Aadhaar, India's biometric database, which contains the personal data of almost every citizen (~1.1 billion people) was exposed in a security breach. (The Washington Post)
First American Corporation leaked approximately 885 million sensitive customer financial records. (KrebsOnSecurity)
Verifications.io exposed data across 763 million records including email address, name, gender, IP address, phone number and other personal information. (Data Breach Today)
In 2019, Facebook had 540 million user records exposed on the Amazon cloud server. (UpGuard)
Yahoo announced in 2014 that the account information of at least 500 million users was stolen, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions by what was believed to be a "state-sponsored actor". (The New York Times)
In November 2018, Marriott International announced that hackers had stolen data about approximately 500 million Starwood hotel customers. (The New York Times)
In October 2016, hackers collected 20 years of data and 412.2 million accounts from six databases that included names, email addresses and passwords for The Adult Friend Finder Network. (The Washington Post)
In June 2013, ~360 million Myspace accounts were compromised by a Russian hacker, but the incident was not disclosed until 2016. (TechCrunch)
In June of 2018, Florida-based marketing and data aggregation firm Exactis exposed a database containing nearly 340 million records on a publicly accessible server. (Wired)
In May of 2018, social media giant Twitter notified 330 million users of a glitch that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log, making all user passwords accessible to the internal network. (CBS)
Read our post on the 36 biggest data breaches of all time.
Recent Data Breaches and Statistics
With over 2,000 confirmed data breaches in 2019 and hundreds in 2020, we've outlined some of the most recent and impactful data breaches over the last two years. This data indicates recency as well as impactful data breaches that have compromised sensitive information.
On February 26, 2020, it was revealed that Clearview AI, a facial-recognition company that contracts with powerful law-enforcement agencies had its entire client list and over 3 billion photos stolen. (Daily Beast)
On February 20, 2020, UpGuard researchers disclosed that a collection of data sets detailing the purchasing habits and consumer behavior of over 120 million Americans had been secured. (UpGuard)
On January 27, 2020, a popular fraud bazaar known as Joker's Stash began selling credit card data that included more than 30 million card accounts stolen from fuel and convenience chain Wawa Inc. (KrebsOnSecurity)
On January 21, 2020, a public-facing database containing names, including previous aliases, past and present home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, names of relatives, and ages of approximately 56 million US residents was discovered on a server with a Chinese IP address and linked to the web-hosting company Alibaba, located in Hangzhou, China. (NJCCIC)
On May 24, 2019, online graphic design tool Canva suffered a data breach that impacted 137 million users. The exposed data included email addresses, names, usernames, cities, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. (Canva)
In July 2019, Capital One revealed that more than 100 million customer accounts, credit card applications, and Social Security Numbers were stolen. (CNN)
In January 2019, a bug gave hackers access to millions of Fortnite accounts, at the time the game had 200 million users and 80 million of whom were active each month. (The Washington Post)
Data Breaches by the Numbers
There are many factors to consider when assessing the cybersecurity risk of data breaches, as well as how to prepare for and manage an ongoing data breach, much of which should be accounted for in an incident response plan. Read below to see how frequently breaches happen, the average response time, and other important information.
The average size of a data breach is 25,575 records. (IBM)
The average time to identify a security breach is 279 days. (IBM)
There were 31,107 incidents of reported cybercrime in 2018 in the U.S., in 2018, the last year for which U.S. law enforcement agencies have information. (GAO)
Inadvertent breaches from human error and system glitches were still the root cause for nearly half (49 percent) of data breaches. (IBM)
The average time to contain a data breach once identified is 73 days. (IBM)
The total number of breaches in 2019 was 1,473, up from 1,257 the year before. 164.6 million records were exposed last year. (IDC)
780,000 records are lost to hacking each day. (McAfee)
Office applications accounted for 72.85% of exploited applications worldwide in the third quarter of 2019. (Statista)
There was a 186% increase in the number of U.S. residents impacted by health data breaches in 2019. (Statista)
95 percent of breached records came from three industries in 2016: Government, retail, and technology. (Tech Republic)
The total number of breaches in 2019 was 1,473, up from 1,257 the year before. 164.6 million records were exposed last year. (ITRC)
36% of breaches were in the medical or healthcare industry in 2019. (ITRC)
The financial sector experienced 137 breaches in 2018 that exposed 1.7 million accounts (SANS)
Cost of a Data Breach Statistics
According to the 2019 Cost of Data Breach Report from Ponemon Institute and IBM Security, the global average cost of a data breach has grown by 12 percent in the last five years to $3.92 million. This was driven by the multi-year financial impact of breaches, increased regulation, and the difficult process of resolving cyber attacks.
These costs come in the form of direct and indirect expenses. Direct expenses include digital forensics, attack surface monitoring software, third-party risk management software, hotline support, monitoring subscriptions, and potential settlements. Indirect costs can include in-house data breach investigations, customer churn, and reputational damage. See just how expensive the total cost of a data breach is below.
The average cost of a data breach globally is $3.92 million. (IBM)
The United States has the highest cost of a data breach at $8.19 million. (IBM)
The wealthier a country, the greater its losses to cybercrime is likely to be. (CSIS)
Healthcare organizations have the highest average industry cost at $6.45 million. (IBM)
Close to $600 billion, nearly one percent of global GDP is lost to cybercrime each year (McAfee)
The average cost per lost record is $150. (IBM)
Experts agree that by the year 2020, the average cost of a data security breach for a major business would be over $150 million. This estimate is due to the higher level of digitalization and connectivity that the world has experienced over the last few years. (BigCommerce)
Share prices of breached companies hit a low point approximately 14 market days following a breach. Share prices fall 7.27% on average, and underperform the NASDAQ by -4.18%. (Comparitech)
The average price for a Business Email Compromise hack is $24,439 per case. (Verizon)
The average cost of lost business for organizations in the 2019 study was $1.42 million, which represents 36 percent of the total average cost. (IBM)
While less expensive than malicious attacks, system glitches and human error breaches are still costly, with an average loss of $3.24 million and $3.5 million respectively. (IBM)
Breaches caused customer turnover of 3.9% in 2019. (IBM)
The total cost of a data breach for the largest organizations (more than 25,000 employees) averaged $5.11 million, which is $204 per employee. (IBM)
The impact of a data breach is disproportionately larger for smaller organizations between 500 and 1,000 employees at an average cost of $2.65 million, or $3,533 per employee. (IBM)
If a third party caused the data breach, the cost increased by more than $370,000, for an adjusted average total cost of $4.29 million. (IBM)
Malwaredata breaches are the most expensive at $2.6 million, followed by web-based attacks and denial of service attacks (Accenture)
For 2018, the cost of downtime associated with internet service outages caused by DDoS attacks was $221,836.80 (NETSCOUT)
Extensive use of encryption, data loss prevention, threat intelligence sharing, and integrating security into the software development process (DevSecOps) were all associated with lower-than-average data breach costs. Among these, encryption had the greatest impact, reducing breach costs by an average of $360,000. (IBM)
Organizations who conducted extensive testing of an incident response plan had an average total cost of a breach that was $1.23 million less than those that neither had an incident response team or tested their incident response plan ($3.51 million vs. $4.74 million). (IBM)
Hospitals spend 64% more on advertising after a data breach. (American Journal of Medical Care)
Data Breach Risk Statistics
The cost of a data breach statistics above highlights the value of investing in information security. See the data breach risk statistics below to understand the effects, motivations, and cause of these damaging attacks.
71% of breaches are financially motivated. (Verizon)
16% of data breaches involved Public sector entities. (Verizon)
43% of data breaches involved small businesses. (Verizon)
Phishing attacks grew by 250% over the course of 2018. (SANS)
Organized crime groups were behind 39% of breaches. (Verizon)
23% of breaches involved nation-state or state-affiliated actors. (Verizon)
Nearly a quarter of data breaches are caused by human error. (IBM)
33% of data breaches involved social engineering. (Verizon)
Data breaches 51% of data breaches originate from malicious cyber attacks. (IBM)
953,800 web attacks were blocked each day in 2018. (Statista)
In 2018, the first DDoS attack above 1 Tbps in size occurred, and a few days later, a 1.7 Tbps attack occurred. (NETSCOUT)
Training employees how to recognize and defend against cyber attacks is the most underspent sector of the cybersecurity industry. (Herjavec Group)
Attacks against SaaS services were up from 13% in 2017 to 41% in 2018. (NETSCOUT)
66% of organizations say it's difficult to retain cybersecurity talent. (ISACA)
Criminals can earn $2.2 million per month by stealing 10 sets of credit card details from each compromised site. (Symantec)
4,800+ unique websites are compromised by formjacking each month. (Symantec)
24% of data breaches are caused by human error. (IBM)
67% of all breaches are caused by credential theft, errors, and social engineering. (Verizon)
58% of breaches involve personal data, almost double from a year ago. (Verizon)
43% of breaches involve web application, twice as much as last year. (Verizon)
27% of malware breaches involve ransomware. (Verizon)
17% of breaches resulted from errors, double the amount from the previous year. (Verizon)
70 million records were stolen or leaked from poorly configured S3 buckets. (Symantec)
Supply chain attacks grew by 78% in 2018. (Symantec)
A cyberattack occurs every 39 seconds. (University of Maryland)
Projections for Data Breaches
Data security is a rapidly evolving field, it's vital to stay informed about potential data loss issues. Below are some cybersecurity projects that could occur in the coming years.
29.6% of companies will experience a data breach in the next two years. (IBM)
The costs associated with deepfake scams are going to exceed $250 million in 2020. (Forrester Research)
A business will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds in 2021. (Herjavec Group)
Global spending on cybersecurity will exceed $1 trillion cumulatively for the 5 year period from 2017-2021. (Herjavec Group)
Cybercrime to cost $6 trillion by 2021. (Herjavec Group)
A top cloud vendor will suffer a data breach compromising the sensitive information of hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies. (Experian)
Attackers will focus on biometric hacking and exposing vulnerabilities in touch ID sensors, facial recognition, and passcodes. (Experian)
Data privacy concerns will lead one in five enterprise customers to safeguard their data from AI. (Forrester Research)
69% of security professionals agree that staying ahead of attackers is a constant battle and the cost is unsustainable. (Accenture)
A major wireless carrier will be attacked, stealing personal information from millions of consumers and possibly disabling all wireless communications in the United States. (Experian)
Skimming isn't new but the next frontier is an enterprise-wide attack on a national network of a major financial institution, which can cause millions in losses. (Experian)
Games will be used to gain access to computers and personal data of trusting players. (Experian)
A growing pool of insecure IoT devices suggests that IoT botnets will continue to thrive. At the same time, protecting public and open recursive DNS resolvers from abuses that amplify attack traffic is becoming an impossible mission, while easy access to DDoS-for-hire services allows relative novices to launch massive attacks very cost effectively. (Nexusguard)
Data Breach Insurance Types
In order to reduce the cybersecurity risk that comes along with data loss, many companies are now investing in data breach insurance. Data breach insurance can help cover the costs associated with breaches.
If you intend to invest in cybersecurity insurance, consider investing in a security ratings tool first as many cyber insurers use these tools to assess the risk of underwriting and to better price their insurance policies as they help insurers gain visibility into the security posture of those they insure. Read our post on security ratings for more information.
There are two common types of data breach insurance:
First-party insurance: Covers things like investigation costs, notifying impacted parties, fielding inquiries, and tools to help affected parties.
Third-party insurance: Used by contractors and IT professionals to lessen their personal liability. Covers expenses like lawyers' fees, settlements, judgments and liability, and other court fees.
Below are a few statistics highlighting the growing necessity for cyber insurance.
Cyber risk is the number one concern for risk managers in the United States. (Actuary)
75% of organizations globally have purchased cyber liability insurance. (Statista)
The value of cyber insurance premiums worldwide is expected to be $20 billion in 2025. (Statista)
64% of large entities who purchased cyber insurance in the United States in 2018 did so for risk transfer. (Statista)
How to Prevent Data Breaches
Data breaches occur when information security and data security are compromised, resulting in sensitive information, personal information or other sensitive data being exposed, copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by people with unauthorized access.
Cyber attacks, social engineering and phishing, ransomware and other types of malware, physical theft of hard drives, slow vulnerability assessment, and patching cadence, bad information security policies, poor security awareness training, and a lack of general cyber security measures can all result in data loss and data breaches.
This is why many organizations are investing in preventative measures to prevent data breaches, like attack surface management and third-party risk management.
Learn more about where companies are investing with these statistics.
63% of organizations that have experienced a data breach are implementing biometric authentication. (Veridium)
80% of organizations planned to increase their security spending in 2018. (451 Research)
7 percent cited information security as the largest budgetary increase area in 2018. (451 Research)
Worldwide information security spending to exceed $124 billion in 2019. (Gartner)
Global IT Spending Forecast to Total $3.9 Trillion in 2020. (Gartner)
U.S. President's Budget Includes $18.8 Billion in Cyber Security Funding for FY 2021. (Whitehouse)
Information security spending forecast to surpass $151 billion in 2023. (IDC)
Costs associated with insider threat prevention and investigations increased by 60% since 2017. (Ponemon Institute)
Data Breaches Statistics FAQs
Below are the most frequently asked questions about data breaches supported by statistics.
How Many Data Breaches Have Occurred?
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse keeps a database of security breaches impacting Americans since 2005, which includes 9,016 breaches. The real number is likely magnitudes higher as their data doesn't include unreported breaches or breaches that don't involve U.S. citizens.
What Was the Biggest Data Breach?
Yahoo disclosed that a breach in August 2013 by a group of hackers had compromised 1 billion accounts. In this instance, security questions and answers were also compromised, increasing the risk of identity theft. The breach was first reported by Yahoo while in negotiations to sell itself to Verizon, on December 14, 2016, and forced all affected users to change passwords, and to reenter any unencrypted security questions and answers to make them encrypted in the future.
However, by October of 2017, Yahoo changed the estimate to 3 billion user accounts. An investigation revealed that users' passwords in clear text, payment card data, and bank information were not stolen. Nonetheless, this remains one of the largest data breaches of this type in history.
To learn about the other large data breaches, read our post on the biggest data breaches of all time.
How Many Data Breaches Were There in 2019?
The Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2020 analyzed 3,950 confirmed breaches from 2019. (Verizon)
What is the Average Cost of a Data Breach?
The average cost of a data breach in 2019 was $3.92 million. (IBM) Read our post on the average cost of a data breach for more in-depth analysis.
How Much Does a Data Breach Cost Per Record?
What is the Average Size of a Data Breach?
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