888 data breaches occurred, compromising 246 million records worldwide in the first six months of 2015. The largest breach in first half of 2015 which scored a 10 in terms of severity on the Breach Level Index was an identity theft attack on Anthem Insurance that exposed 78.8 million records, representing almost a third (32%) of the total data records stolen. The average healthcare data breach in 2015 netted more than 450,000 data records, which is an increase of 200 percent compared to the same time last year.”]