8 statistics on data breaches in 2015 so far

Here are eight findings on data breaches in the first half of 2015 from Breach Level Index.

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•    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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