BizSugar.com › Technology › 2018 Marked a Year of Catastrophic Data Breaches--Here Are 3 Ways We Can Learn From it (and Need to)

It seems like it was just yesterday that cyber attacks were rarely in the headlines and only involved 'obvious' targets. Today, anybody can become a victim, with hundreds of millions of private records having been compromised in the past year alone through data breaches and vulnerabilities.

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse lists 700 disclosed breaches for the year which includes several influential enterprises. The experts predict that cybercrime will only become more rampant as time goes on, so it's critical to keep an eye on what's been happening.

Here are three key lessons we can learn from 2018's biggest data breaches.