Data breaches in 2020 decreased by 48% but the number of records exposed have exceeded 37 billion.

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RICHMOND, VA, January 21, 2020 — Risk Based Security today released their 2020 Year End Data Breach QuickView Report, revealing that there were 3,932 publicly reported data breaches, compromising over 37 billion records. Compared to 2019, the number of publicly reported breach events decreased by 48%. However, the total number of records compromised increased by 141% […]

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