{"id":1008975,"date":"2026-05-21T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008975"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:58:54","slug":"ai-related-data-breaches-surpass-stolen-credentials-in-cyber-incidents-verizon-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/21\/ai-related-data-breaches-surpass-stolen-credentials-in-cyber-incidents-verizon-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-related data breaches surpass stolen credentials in cyber incidents, Verizon report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; AI-detected vulnerabilities surpassed incidents of stolen credentials in data breaches last year, according to an annual report from Verizon relating to industry security incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon said in a review of more than 31,000 incidents that 31% of all breaches started with vulnerability exploitation in an AI world. It warned that AI was being used by threat actors &#8220;to accelerate the time to exploit known vulnerabilities, shrinking the window for defense from months to mere hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; AI-detected vulnerabilities surpassed incidents of stolen credentials in data breaches last year, according to an annual report from Verizon relating to industry security incidents. Verizon said in a review of more than 31,000 incidents that 31% of all breaches started with vulnerability exploitation in an AI world. It warned that AI was being used by threat actors &#8220;to accelerate the time to exploit known vulnerabilities, shrinking the window for defense from months to mere hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008976,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008975\/revisions\/1008976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}