Nearly 2B Data Records Compromised In First Half Of 2017

More than 900 data breaches led to nearly two billion records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2017, digital security company Gemalto said in a new report. In the first six months of this year, 918 data breaches led to 1.9 billion data records being compromised, a “staggering” 164% increase from the number of lost, stolen or compromised records in the last six months of 2016, Gemalto said in a press release earlier this week. While “a large portion” came from the 22 largest data breaches, each involving more than one million compromised records, 59% of the 918 breaches had an “unknown or unaccounted” number of compromised data records.