A single mega-breach affecting more than 10 million individuals worldwide capped off a quarter in which 245 individual data breaches were identified and reported. At least 10.6 million records were compromised overall during the second calendar quarter of this year. The number of breaches was up 14 percent over the previous quarter, when just 215 breaches were reported. Contact information was compromised in 220 (90 percent) of the breaches, while financial details were shared in 102 cases (42 percent) and health information in 67 (27 percent)”]

