In August 2013, Symantec reported the following key findings:
1. Social media scams involving fake discount offers dominated social attacks in 2013, comprising 82% of incidents. Fake plug-ins were the second most common attack at 8.2%.
2. There were 7 reported data breaches in August, with an additional 9 from earlier in the year, bringing the 2013 total to 125 breaches exposing 91 million identities. The top 3 exposed data types were real names, birth dates, and government IDs.
3. 213 new mobile malware variants were discovered in August, a modest increase from July. Cumulative Android malware reached 6,852 variants in 2013.