Data Breaches Reach New Record in 2017: Report

The number of U.S. data breaches hit a new all-time high in 2017, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Identified breaches rose 44.7 percent last year to 1,579.

The business sector topped the list with 870 reported incidents, representing more than half of the overall total. The health-care sector was second with 374 breaches (23.7 percent), followed by the financial sector with 134 (8.5 percent).

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