Consumers may not know the necessary precautions they should be taking to protect their data. This has a lot to do with the rising number of data breaches each year. In 2016, for example, in 2016, the number of breaches in the U.S. was at an all-time high in terms of data breach data was at the top of the list. In fact, the rise in data breaches is due to the rise of cyberattacks in the last few years. In this year’s data breaches were the biggest in the world, with more than 1,000 breaches reported in 2016 alone.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/blog/stiennons-security-scorecard/