Almost 1.4 billion data records were compromised in 2016 as hackers targeted large-scale databases across industries, a Gemalto report found. The 2016 Breach Level Index revealed that there were 1,792 data breaches worldwide last year, an increase of 86 percent on 2015. Breaches by type Identity theft was the leading type of data breach, accounting [...]
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