LibGuides: Cybercrime: Data Breaches

Data Breaches - Data & Rankings

Cyber Operations Tracker
Created by the Council on Foreign Relations, this is a database of the publicly known state-sponsored incidents that have occurred since 2005.

Data Breach Investigations Report - 2008-2022
Report compiled by Verizon contains statistics and analysis of breaches by type and by industry.

Data Breach Investigations Report 2025
Annual Report compiled by Verizon
AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF COMPANY RESPONSE TO DATA BREACHES.
Nikkhah, H. R., & Grover, V. (2022). An Empirical Investigation of Company Response to Data Breaches. MIS Quarterly, 46(4), 2163–2195. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2022/16609
FBI Internet Crime Report - 2023

Gartner Resource Center
Research and analysis on the global information technology industry; includes research papers on best practices and emerging industries and technologies. The Gartner database is currently available only via theCUNY portal. After logging in, look under the "IT Research" heading for the link to Gartner.

Identity Theft Resource Center Annual Data Breach Report
Data & analysis including lists of the top corporate breaches, top breaches by type of breach, numbers of people impacted by breaches by type of breach.
Significant Cyber Incidents
This timeline records significant cyber incidents since 2006, focusing on cyber attacks on government agencies, defense and high tech companies, or economic crimes with losses of more than a million dollars. Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Year in Review -Breaches and Malware Threat Landscape - Flashpoint