The only good news in regard to 2015 U.S. data breaches was thatfewer took place than the year before – by a hair. The bad news wasthe number of exposed records doubled compared to 2014 figures.
There were 781 data breaches in 2015, which exposed 169,068,506records containing personally identifiable information, accordingto the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center. That is justshy of the record-setting 783 incidents, which revealed 85,611,528records, in 2014.
The ITRC defines a data breach as an incident that puts personalinformation (such as an individual name plus a Social Securitynumber, driver's license number, or medical or financial recordinformation) at risk because of exposure. For some breaches,statistics were not yet reported or were unconfirmed.
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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.).
