There were 736 million records exposed in 2015 due to a record setting 3,930 data breaches. 2016 has only just started, and as the blotter shows, there are a number of incidents being reported in the public, proving that data protection is still one of the hardest tasks to master in InfoSec. The data protection blazers are still learning how to protect your data from data breaches. In 2015, there were more than 3,900 data breaches, according to the IDG blotter.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3030735/cso-onlines-2016-data-breach-blotter.html