Last week’s total number of records exposed jumped by 10 million after Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield/Lifetime Healthcare reported a hacking attack. The insurer will provide customers with two-years of identity- and credit-monitoring services.
Here’s a rundown of the ITRC report for last week:
- The business sector accounts for about 1 million exposed records in 218 incidents so far in 2015. That represents 39.6% of the incidents, but just 0.7% of the exposed records.
- The medical/health care sector posted the second-largest percentage of the total breaches so far this year, 35.2% (194) out of the total of 563. The number of records exposed in these breaches totaled nearly 120 million, or 79.8% of the total so far in 2015.
- The number of banking/credit/financial breaches totals 52 for the year to date, unchanged from last week, and involves almost 412,000 records, some 9.4% of the total number of breaches and 0.3% of the records exposed.
- The government/military sector has suffered 41 data breaches so far this year, up one from a week ago, and 7.4% of the total, but slightly less than 19% of the total number of records exposed so far this year. More than 28 million records have been compromised in the government/military sector to date in 2015.
- The educational sector has seen 46 data breaches in 2015, also up one compared with the prior week. The sector accounts for 8.3% of all breaches for the year and nearly 750,000 exposed records, about 0.5% of the total so far in 2015.
In all of 2014, ITRC tracked an annual record number of 783 data breaches, up 27.5% year over year. The previous high was 662 breaches in 2010. Since beginning to track data breaches in 2005, ITRC had counted 5,562 breaches through September 1, 2015, involving more than 818 million records. Compared with 2014, the number of data breaches is down one from 542 recorded to date last year.
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