The latest report from the ITRC reports there have been a total of 669 data breaches recorded through November 18, 2015, exposing nearly 182 million records. This 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.
Here’s a rundown of the ITRC report for last week:
- The business sector accounts for about 16 million exposed records in 258 incidents so far in 2015. That represents 38.6% of the incidents and 8.9% of the exposed records.
- The medical/health care sector posted the second-largest percentage of the total breaches so far this year, 36% (241) out of the total of 669. The number of records exposed in these breaches totaled nearly 120 million, or 66% of the total so far in 2015.
- The number of banking/credit/financial breaches totals 61 for the year to date and involves more than 5 million records, some 9.1% of the total number of breaches, and 2.89% of the records exposed.
- The government/military sector has suffered 57 data breaches so far this year, representing about 21.9% of the total number of records exposed so far this year and 8.5% of the incidents. Nearly 40 million records have been compromised in the government/military sector to date in 2015.
- The educational sector has seen 52 data breaches in 2015. The sector accounts for 7.8% of all breaches for the year and nearly 760,000 exposed records, about 0.4% of the total so far in 2015.
Read more: Data Breach in Georgia Adds 6 Million Records to Yearly Count – 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2015/11/19/data-breach-in-georgia-adds-6-million-records-to-yearly-count/#ixzz3s4AXEVex