The latest report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reveals that there has been a total of 466 data breaches recorded through August 4, 2015, and more than 139 million records have been exposed so far this year. The annual total includes 21.5 million records exposed in the attack on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in June and 78.8 million health care customer records exposed at Anthem in February.
In all of 2014, ITRC tracked an annual record number of 783 data breaches, up 27.5% year over year. The previous high was 662 breaches in 2010. Since beginning to track data breaches in 2005, ITRC had counted 5,377 breaches through June 9, 2015, involving more than 786 million records. Compared with 2014, the number of data breaches is less than 1% lower to date.
The total number of data breaches increased by 16 last week, and the business sector accounts for about 643,000 breached records in 181 incidents so far in 2015. That represents nearly 39% of the incidents, but just 0.5% of the breached records.
The medical/health care sector posted the second-largest percentage of the total breaches so far this year, 35.5% (167) out of the total of 466. The number of records exposed in these breaches totaled 109 million.
The number of banking/credit/financial breaches totals 45 for the year to date and involves more than 411,000 records, some 9.7% of the total number of breaches and 0.3% of the records exposed.
The government/military sector has suffered 36 data breaches so far this year, just 7.7% of the total, but about 20% of the total number of records exposed.
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