The Information Commissioner’s Office has revealed that the number of data security breaches in the private sector has increased by 58 percent year-on-year. Between 1 April and 30 September 2011, there were 136 breaches reported to the ICO, compared to 86 in the same period last year. The increase may be due to greater awareness among businesses of their responsibilities under the Data Protection Act (DPA). Awareness may also have grown on the back of high-profile security breaches such as those by LulzSec and the Sony Playstation hack.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129976/private-sector-data-breaches-up-58-percent.html