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Data Breaches and Records Exposed By Industry, 2019
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Category Number of
breaches		 Percent of total Category Number of sensitive
records exposed
(000)		 Percent of total
Business 644 43.7% Banking/credit/financial 100,621,770 61.1%
Medical/healthcare 525 35.6 Medical/healthcare 39,378,157 23.9
Educational 113 7.7 Business 18,824,975 11.4
Banking/credit/financial 108 7.3 Government/military 3,606,114 2.2
Government/military 83 5.6 Educational 2,252,439 1.4
Total 1,473 100.0% Total 164,683,455 100.0%

Source: Identity Theft Resource Center, 2019 End of Year Data Breach Report.

 

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Data Breaches and Records Exposed, 2016
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Category Number of
breaches		 Percent
of total		 Category Number of records
exposed (000)		 Percent
of total
Business 495 45.3% Medical/healthcare 15,942 43.6%
Medical/healthcare 376 34.4 Government/military 13,870 37.9
Educational 98 9.0 Business 5,670 15.5
Government/military 72 6.6 Educational 1,048 2.9
Banking/credit/financial 52 4.8 Banking/credit/financial 72 0.2

Source: Identity Theft Resource Center.

 
Data Breaches and Records Exposed, 2017
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Category Number of
breaches		 Percent of
total		 Category Number of
records
exposed (000)		 Percent of
total
Business 870 55.1% Business 163,449 91.3%
Medical/healthcare 374 23.7 Government/military 5,903 3.3
Banking/credit/financial 134 8.5 Medical/healthcare 5,062 2.8
Educational 127 8.0 Banking/credit/financial 3122 1.7
Government/military 74 4.7 Educational 1,418 0.8

Source: Identity Theft Resource Center.

 
Data Breaches and Records Exposed By Industry, 2018
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Category Number of
breaches		 Percent of total Category Number of
records exposed
(000)		 Percent of total
Business 571 45.9% Business 415,233 93.0%
Medical/healthcare 363 29.2 Government/military 18,237 4.1
Banking/credit/financial 135 10.9 Medical/healthcare 9,928 2.2
Government/military 99 8.0 Banking/credit/financial 1,709 0.4
Educational 76 6.1 Educational 1,409 0.3

Source: Identity Theft Resource Center, 2018 End of Year Data Breach Report.