In this 19th edition of the Verizon DBIR, we dig into more than 31,000 actual real-world security incidents, of which more than 22,000 were confirmed data breaches involving organizations in 145 countries. This represents the largest number of breaches we have ever examined in a single report! Yes, we realize that we have said that before, but what can we say? It’s still true because the number of cases we examine continues to increase YoY. We leave it up to you to determine if that is a good thing or a not so good thing.1 For the victim organizations, it is undoubtedly the latter, but for our purposes of illuminating threats to your business, it is firmly in the former camp.