A total of 3,813 breaches were reported from January 1 through June 30, or on average, more than 20 of them each day. The total number of breaches in the first half of 2019 was 54% higher than during the same period last year, while the number of exposed records was 52% more than 2018. The biggest breaches included one at Verifications.Io that exposed a mind-numbing 983 million records with all sorts of sensitive information; another at First American Financial Corp that impacted 885 million records.”]