Technology
Data Breaches Rise 16% to Date in 2016
July 8, 2016 11:20 am
Last Updated: January 13, 2020 5:56 am
The latest count from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) indicates that there have been 507 data breaches recorded this year, through July 5, 2016, and that more than 12.8 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year. The total number of reported breaches increased by seven since ITRC’s last report.
On Thursday, Wendy’s Co. (NASDAQ: WEN) revealed store locations that may have been affected by malware attacks the company reported in February and June of this year. The attack was designed to steal credit and debit card data, and it came to light when banks and credit unions reported unusually high instances of debit card fraud. The attacks began last year and at least 1,025 locations were victimized ,according data security website KrebsOnSecurity. Wendy’s has provided a list of stores known to have been victims of the attack.
The number of breaches in 2015 totaled 781, just two shy of the record 783 breaches that ITRC tracked in 2014. The 507 data breaches reported so far for 2016 are 16% more than the number reported (436) 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 6,318 breaches through June 28, 2016, involving more than 864 million records.
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