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Hacking Exposed 78% Of All Records Compromised In First Half Of 2014

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Dissent

RiskBased Security reports:

We are pleased to release our Data Breach QuickView report that shows that 2014 is on pace to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records, and the recently reported exposure of 1.2 billion email addresses and user names has not been included. The 1331 incidents reported during the first half of 2014 exposed over 502 million records, nearing 61% of the 814 million records exposed in 2013.

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