Technology
Data Breach Count Ticks Higher, Still Less Than in 2014
November 5, 2015 12:35 pm
Last Updated: January 13, 2020 5:30 pm
The latest account from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that there has been a total of 641 data breaches recorded through November 3, 2015, and that nearly 176 million records have been exposed. The annual total includes 21.5 million records exposed in the attack on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in June and 78.8 million health care customer records exposed at Anthem in February.
Speaking of the OPM, the agency’s interim director, Beth Colbert, announced on Wednesday the appointment of Clifton Triplett as a new senior cyber and information technology adviser. Prior to his appointment at OPM, Triplett was a managing partner at SteelPointe Partners, a global management consulting company.
Here’s a rundown of the ITRC report for last week:
In all of 2014, ITRC tracked an annual record number of 783 data breaches, up 27.5% compared with 2013. The previous high was 662 breaches in 2010. Since beginning to track data breaches in 2005, ITRC had counted 5,593 breaches through September 22, 2015, involving nearly 829 million records. Compared with 2014, the number of data breaches to date in 2015 is down by 16 (2.4%) from 657 recorded to the same date last year.
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