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2016 a record year for data breaches

Businesses are the top target for targets for data thieves. Nearly half of the reported data breaches 494 hit companies. The health care sector also took a big hit from hackers, however, with 377 data breaches.

By Jack Craver | Updated on January 19, 2017
Businesses are the top target for targets for data thieves. Nearly half of the reported data breaches — 494 — hit companies. The health care sector also took a big hit from hackers, however, with 377 data breaches. (Photo: iStock)

It’s not just politicians who are trembling in their boots about the threat of hackers. Any person or organization with anything of value is a likely target of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

2016 was a record year for data breaches, according to a new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and Cyberscout (formerly IDT911). Nationally, there were 1,093 data breaches, an increase of 40 percent over the previous annual record.

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