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Scary Number of 2017 Breaches Tops 2016 Record High

The number of breaches reported for 2017 has already topped the record number from 2016.

By Roy Urrico | Updated on October 20, 2017

Talk about scary Halloween tales. The number captured in the 2017 ITRC Breach Report now totals 1,103, an increase of 22.4% over last year’s record pace for the same period (901).

As of October 18, the breach total also represents 171,588,466 reported exposed records, according to the report from the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center and Providence, R.I.-based CyberScout (formerly IDT911). The ITRC report also revealed the breach total already surpassed the number of U.S. data breaches tracked for all of 2016, which hit an all-time record high of 1,093. Last year also showed 36,601,939 reported records exposed.

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Roy Urrico

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.).

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