3MM Records Compromised Every Day or 44 Records Every Second
Last year 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide, an increase of 86% compared to 2015. Gemalto’s Breach Level Index found identity theft was the leading type of data breach in 2016, accounting for 59% of all data breaches. In addition, 52% of the data breaches in 2016 did…