Key findings include:
- Business, government, educational and medical organizations have been responsible for losing on average over 395,000 people's data per day every day for five years.
- Hacking was responsible for 45% of all exposed records with an average loss of 716,000 records
- Stolen laptops were responsible for 49% of breaches but only 6% of lost records per incident.
- The fastest growing attack vector is social engineering
- Social Security Numbers (SSNs) are the most frequent data element reported.
- The Business sector accounted for 70% of breach incidents