According to the recently released Breach Level Index, 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 million data records being compromised worldwide, an increase of 86 percent compared to 2015. Once again, identity theft was the leading type of data breach last year, accounting for 59 percent of all data breaches.
The second most prevalent type of breach in 2016 is account access-based breaches. While the incidence of this type of data breach decreased by 3 percent, it made up 54 percent of all breached records, which is an increase of 336 percent from the previous year.
