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Exposed Government, Medical Records Total More Than 10 Million in 2016
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The latest count from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that there have been 522 data breaches recorded this year through July 12, 2016, and that nearly 13 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year. The total number of reported breaches increased by 15 since ITRC’s last report.
An interim report issued last week by the Republican members of a U.S. House committee charged that data breaches and hacking attacks against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) indicate mismanagement and security flaws at the federal agency that insures consumer bank deposits. The report also cited a “culture of concealment” and pointed a finger directly at FDIC’s CIO, who was blamed for the “toxic work environment” at the agency and who also was accused of misleading Congress and retaliating against whistleblowers.
The number of breaches in 2015 totaled 781, just two shy of the record 783 breaches that ITRC tracked in 2014. The 522 data breaches reported so far for 2016 are 15% more than the number reported (453) for the same period last year. A total of more than 169 million records were exposed in 2015.
Here’s a rundown of the ITRC report for last week:
Since beginning to track data breaches in 2005, ITRC had counted 6,331 breaches through June 28, 2016, involving more than 864 million records.
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