An Analysis of Cybersecurity Data Breach in The State of California

Zakaria Tayeb Bey; Michael Opoku Agyeman

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20160-8_10

An Analysis of Cybersecurity Data Breach in The State of California

Zakaria Tayeb Bey, Michael Opoku Agyeman^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

As the wave of data breaches continues to crash down on organisations, we will analyse the largest publicly available database of data breaches in the state of California using the public data breach database functioning under the state notification law of data breach. The dataset contains records since January 2012. These records were analysed in order to classify and identify California data breaches by multiple company types, attack vectors and sto-len personal information. The main findings were that Software vulnerabil-ity is the most common attack vector due to third-party software, the finan-cial industry is the most targeted industry while both large and small organ-isations are equally targeted by attackers. The analysis also found that cred-it/debit card information and social security numbers represent the most stolen personal information.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cybersecurity in the Age of Smart Societies
Publisher	Springer
Pages	159-170
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-20160-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-20159-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20160-8_10
Publication status	Published - 3 Jan 2023
Event	International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3) - Duration: 7 Sept 2022 → 10 Sept 2022 https://london.northumbria.ac.uk/icgs3-22/

Publication series

Name	Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
Publisher	Springer Nature
ISSN (Print)	1613-5113

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Conference	International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3)
Period	7/09/22 → 10/09/22
Internet address	https://london.northumbria.ac.uk/icgs3-22/

Keywords

Cybersecurity
Data Breach
Cyber-attack
Ethical Hacking
Internet of Things
IoT
Security
California Data Breach Database

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Tayeb Bey, Z & Opoku Agyeman, M 2023, An Analysis of Cybersecurity Data Breach in The State of California. in Cybersecurity in the Age of Smart Societies. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications, Springer, pp. 159-170, International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3), 7/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20160-8_10

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