Two petabytes, or two quadrillion bytes of information, has been stolen from Israelis in recent years, according to Yossi Karadi, head of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD). Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Karadi described the scope of the Israel data breach incidents as unprecedented. 

Not long ago, cyberattacks were measured in megabytes or gigabytes. As digital storage expanded, breaches involving terabytes, trillions of bytes, became the benchmark for large-scale incidents. Now, hackers have pushed beyond even that threshold. The two-petabyte figure reflects a dramatic leap in the scale of successful infiltrations affecting Israeli citizens and institutions.  Yossi Karadi Says...