Security News > 2020 > February > Over 15.1 Billion Records Exposed in Data Breaches in 2019
More than 15.1 billion records were exposed in 2019 as part of the data breaches that were publicly reported, Risk Based Security reveals.
There were "Three breaches that compromised 1 billion records or more exposed transaction logs," but the number of impacted people is much lower than the 7.6 billion exposed records.
Of the 15.1 billion records exposed last year, 13.5 billion were compromised via the web, specifically inadvertent exposure of data online, the report reveals.
Hacking exposed 1.5 billion records, while the other types of incidents combined exposed 120 million records.
A total of 368 third-party breaches were reported in 2019, exposing over 4.7 billion records, with an average number of exposed records of roughly 13 million per breach.