One out of two cyber attacks saw breach of passwords: Wipro report

Number of records stolen across globe grew by 53.6% in 2016 as against 2015

Nearly One out of every two cyber attacks saw breach of password previous year indicates the chances of further damage across different enterprises, said the State of Cybersecurity Report, 2017 by IT services major Wipro.

The report, which was released on Thursday, said "56 per cent of breaches reported had passwords as the types of data stolen, implying that further damage could be perpetrated using the stolen data".

It has also found out that the number of records stolen across the globe grew by 53.6 per cent in 2016 as against 2015.

Wipro said in a statement said the report