There were, globally, 1,514 breach incidents that became public, with the number of records compromised exceeding 1 billion. Mega breaches exposed tens of millions of records of brand-name companies last year, including Home Depot, eBay and JP Morgan Chase. IDentity theft accounted for 54% of the attacks, which is up 20% from 2013. Security awareness is the highest it has ever been, says chief strategy officer for identity and data protection at Gemalto. He said 2014 will be remembered as a tipping point in IT security.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2883376/more-than-1b-records-breached-in-2014.html