Today in Data: Fake It ’Til You Hack It
Today in Data, the Axie Infinity game was hacked for $540 million in cryptocurrency. Plus, healthcare data breaches fall for the third consecutive month and fake profiles make it tough to tell if a sales pitch is legitimate.
Data
46: Number of healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records in February 2022, down 8% from January
723: Number of healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records from March 2021 to February 2022
1,000+: Number of fake LinkedIn profiles discovered by Stanford University researchers
97%: Share of fake accounts LinkedIn stopped in the first half of 2021 — 11.6 million blocked at registration, 86,000 restricted after members reported them and 3.7 million proactively restricted
$540M; $615M: Initial and current value of cryptocurrency hacked from Axie Infinity game