Technology
2016 Data Breaches Expose 1.4 Million Records
February 11, 2016 12:55 pm
Last Updated: January 13, 2020 1:17 pm
The latest count from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that there has been a total of 69 data breaches recorded through February 9, 2016, and that more than 1.4 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year. The largest data breach to date was reported by Centene Corp. (NYSE: CNC) and involved medical information on 950,000 subscribers to the company’s health insurance products. The data were stored on six hard drives that are currently unaccounted for.
The total number of breaches in 2015 came in at 781, just shy of the record 783 breaches that ITRC tracked in 2014. The 69 data breaches reported so far for 2016 are close to the 73 reported for the same period last year.
Here’s a rundown of the ITRC report for last week:
In all of 2015, ITRC tracked 781 data breaches, just behind the record total of 783 in 2014. A total of more than 169 million records were exposed in 2015. Since beginning to track data breaches in 2005, ITRC had counted 5,810 breaches through December 2015, involving more than 856 million records.
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