Breach Level Index: 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 million data records being compromised worldwide in 2016. Identity theft was the leading type of data breach last year, accounting for 59 percent of all breaches. Cyber criminals are moving from financial information attacks to mining bigger databases with large volumes of personally identifiable information. The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a huge impact on the data breach landscape moving forward. Companies can no longer assume they will be immune to attacks, but prepare a secure breach environment.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3193155/data-breaches-its-still-personal.html