According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), organizations around the world suffered over 700 data breaches in 2015. The attacks covered every sector and records were lost in many sectors. For 2015, the ITRC reports the following findings:
781: total data breaches reported for 2015 (a slight decrease from 783 in 2014)
312: data breaches suffered in the business category
277: data breaches suffered in the medical/healthcare sector (35 percent of reported breaches)
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