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