Data breaches in 2015 are on pace to break records both in thenumber of breaches and records exposed, the San Diego-basedIdentity Theft Resource Center said.

In 2014, the number of U.S. data breaches tracked by ITRC hit arecord high of 783, with 85,611,528 confirmed records exposed.

So far this year, as of June 30, the number of breaches capturedon the ITRC report totaled 400 data incidents, one more than onJune 30, 2014.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).