Security News > 2020 > May > Average US citizen had personal information stolen at least 4 times in 2019
A new study looking into data breaches in 2019 found that on average, a US citizen had their personal information leaked to the public at least four times.
Interest.com pulled together multiple sources of publicly available data from 2019 on all of the data breaches announced by a variety of companies including social media sites like Facebook, which had three of the largest breaches last year.
"The most common outlets for breached data were Social Media Sites, Tech and Websites so take care to only use your passwords once on each site so that a single personal data exposure doesn't expose your entire online world," the report stated.
"What makes these data breaches so scary and infuriating, is that we want and sometimes need to trust companies such as Facebook, Adobe and First American with our personal information," the report said.
First American Corporation had the largest breach in 2019 of 885 million records while Facebook had three separate breaches exposing a total of at least 808.5 million records.