Determining the True Cost of a Data Breach

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, the number of data breaches tracked in the United States reached an all-time high of 783 in 2014. This is a 27.5% increase over the number of breaches reported in 2013. The number of data breach incidents tracked in the United States since 2005 also hit a milestone of more than 5,000 and involved an estimated 675 million records.