Data breaches up by 49% in 2014, exposing more than a billion records

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Data breaches up by 49% in 2014, exposing more than a billion records

Cyber criminals compromised more than a billion data records in 2014 in more than 1,500 breaches, according to the latest breach report from Gemalto.

This represents a 49% increase in data breaches and a 78% increase in the number of data records stolen or lost compared with 2013, which works out at 32 records lost or stolen every second.