This website can provide researchers with a lot of information on data breaches. It includes information regarding the most common types of cybersecurity breaches. It also includes a list of organizations with the most breaches, as well as a graph containing the types of organizations with the most breaches, with the top one being medical organizations. Researchers can use this data to report which specific organizations most often face data breaches, or which types of organizations are most often targets for data breaches The website also allows users to view data breaches by state, and researchers can use that information to determine which states need to put more focus into protecting its citizens’ data, and how they can prevent data breaches in the future. It has an entire database where you can search hundreds of data breaches. If a researcher is studying a data breach, such as the Mortgage Connect LP data breach, they can search the organization by name and access a pdf that provides an analysis of the situation. It also allows users to change the date range, and it includes the number of data breaches that correspond with the date range that you selected. A researcher reporting on the total number of breaches from 2008 to 2010 can use this feature to easily find the number of breaches that occurred within that time frame.
Old Dominion University, School of Cybersecurity