• N umber of records breached — 245 million
• Number of breach incidents — 888
• Number of healthcare-related breach incidents — 187
• Number of breach incidents in North America — 707
• Number of records lost or stolen everyday — 1.3 million
• Percentage of breach incidents caused by a malicious outsider — 62 percent
• Percentage of breaches for the purposes of identity theft — 53 percent
• Percentage of breaches where number of compromised records was unknown — 50 percent
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