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KEY FINDING #3
THE BUSINESS INDUSTRY HAD THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF
REPORTED BREACHES
The business industry had the highest number of reported breaches In looking at all of the
sectors; it was the most impacted having had the highest number of reported breaches in
2018, followed by the medical/healthcare industries and the banking/credit/financial industries.
Almost half of the total number of breaches categorized as Business and Government/Military
in 2018 exposed Social Security numbers. SSNs were the highest exposed piece of sensitive
PII in all industry categories except for the Medical/Healthcare sector, where protected health
information was the highest sensitive PII exposed.
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