Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/   No worries, the chart is very interactive and you can select what you want to see by changing the filter: The problem is that if you select like the screenshot below, you will not see anything anymore. This is scary!   Statistics? Actually, the data is scary: it seems that at any point in time there was a breach.     Here is the source of the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmenB57kGPGKdHh6eGpTR2lPQl9NZmo3RlVzQ1N2Ymc&single=true&gid=2&range=A1%3AW400