The Identity Theft Resource Center reports that there has been a total of 269 data breaches recorded through April 19, 2016, and that more than 11.27 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year.
A data breach is defined as an incident in which an individual name plus a Social Security number, driver’s license number, medical record or financial record (credit/debit cards included) is potentially put at risk because of exposure. This exposure can occur either electronically or in paper format.
The 269 data breaches reported so far for 2016 are more than 10% higher than the number reported for the same period last year. A total of more than 169 million records were exposed in 2015.
The data breach report is chock full of good information! Each of the 269 breaches is laid out with a brief summary and a link to the source. Remember, these breaches only happened this year!
Want to read the Data Breach Report? Here –> http://www.idtheftcenter.org/images/breach/DataBreachReports_2016.pdf
