With data breaches happening throughout the world on a daily basis, security in the digital age is now more important than ever. These breaches can result in the compromise of billions of personal records, from financial details to logins and passwords.

At Apcela, we often hear from enterprises that network and application security is a key concern. Having SD-WAN in place can play a big part in addressing security concerns, allowing enterprises to encrypt branch-to-branch corporate traffic using IPsec and protecting valuable data.

Because of the recent Facebook data breach resulting in 50 million records compromised, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at data breaches throughout the world since 2013. More specifically, what industries and countries are affected the most, as well as how these breaches happen and what their targets are.