ITRC (Identity Theft Resource Center) has released a report that highlights again just how prevalent - and troubling - record-exposing data breaches have become.
ITRC collected 533 data breaches in 2015, exposing over 140 million records.
The four most heavily affected sectors account for 60% of exposed records: healthcare (35%), financial (10%), education (8.5%) and government/military (7.5%)
This is no real change from the situation last year - so the situation may not have become worse.
But it also appears that enterprises have not generally managed to reduce their exposure to the risk of data leakages!
Source: fiercecontentmanagement.com (9 Sept 2015)
