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 from January to November 15, 2017 categorized by industry. The largest number of breaches occurred in the business industry, compromising over 156 million records. While the number of medical/healthcare breaches increased by 64.4% from 2016, representing over 27% of total breaches and exposing almost 5 million records. The document also provides background on ITRC and information about the author.

1. 2017 ITRC DATABREACH SUMMARY REPORT as of
11/15/2017
Cruz Cerda
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 11/15/2017

2. 2017 Number of Data Breaches
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 11/15/2017
74
606
107
60
325
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Banking/Credit/Financial
Business
Educational
Government/Military
Medical/Healthcare

3. 2017 Number of Records Exposed
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 11/15/2017
2,908,580
156,956,255
1,146,680
5,802,233
4,874,217
0 40,000,000 80,000,000 120,000,000 160,000,000
Banking/Credit/Financial
Business
Educational
Government/Military
Medical/Healthcare

4. 2017-2016 Percent Change (+/-)
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 11/15/2017
32.0%
37.2%
-1.6%
0.9%
64.4%
-10.0%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
Business Educational Government-Military Medical-Healthcare Banking-Financial-Credit

5. 2017 Number of Data Breaches (%)
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 11/15/2017
Banking/Credit/Financial
6.3%
Business
51.7%
Educational
9.1%
Government/Military
5.1%
Medical/Healthcare
27.7%

6. 2017 Number of Records Exposed (%)
2017 Breaches Identified by the ITRC as of 11/15/2017
Banking/Credit/Financial
1.7%
Business 91.4%
Educational 0.7%
Government/Military
3.4%
Medical/Healthcare
2.8%

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 11/15/2017

8. Cruz Cerda
 PhD Candidate, Walden University – Applied
Management and Decision Sciences – Information
Systems Specialization
 MA, New York University – Education
 AB, Harvard University – Economics
 Full Text doctoral research proposal 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 11/15/2017