The document summarizes a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) about data breaches in 2017. It provides statistics on the number and size of data breaches by sector from January to June 2017. There were 724 total breaches exposing over 10 million records. Business sector breaches accounted for over half of all breaches and exposed over 69% of all records. Medical/healthcare breaches exposed the second highest number of records at over 2.4 million records from 159 breaches. The report also shows year-over-year percentage changes in breaches by sector from 2016 to 2017.
1. 2017 ITRC DATABREACH SUMMARY REPORT as of
06/06/2017
Cruz Cerda
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
2. 2017 Number of Data Breaches
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
38
402
84
41
159
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450
Banking/Credit/Financial
Business
Educational
Government/Military
Medical/Healthcare
3. 2017 Number of Records Exposed
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
526,000
7,544,401
73,529
202,598
2,495,880
0 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000
Banking/Credit/Financial
Business
Educational
Government/Military
Medical/Healthcare
4. 2017-2016 Percent Change
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
45.1% 47.4%
78.3%
-4.2%
123.5%
-20.0%
0.0%
20.0%
40.0%
60.0%
80.0%
100.0%
120.0%
140.0%
Business Educational Government-Military Medical-Healthcare Banking-Financial-Credit
5. 2017 Number of Data Breaches (%)
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
Banking/Credit/Financial
5.2%
Business
55.5%Educational
11.6%
Government/Military
5.7%
Medical/Healthcare
22.0%
6. 2017 Number of Records Exposed (%)
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
Banking/Credit/Financial
4.9%
Business 69.6%
Educational 0.7%
Government/Military
1.9%
Medical/Healthcare
23.0%
7. Reference
Breaches represented on this summary
typically have exposed information
which could potentially lead to
identity theft, including Social Security
numbers, financial account
information, or medical information.
ITRC follows U.S. Federal guidelines
about what combination of personal
information comprise a unique
individual, and the exposure of which
will constitute a databreach.
https://www.idtheftcenter.org
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017
8. Cruz Cerda
PhD Candidate, Walden University – Applied
Management and Decision Sciences – Information
Systems Specialization
MA, New York University – Education
BA, Harvard University – Economics
Full Text doctoral research study Medical Identity Theft,
Palm Vein Authentication: The Manager's Perspective
@ResearchGate
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1937.8801 @ResearchGate
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 06/06/2017