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*It should be noted that the numbers above will total more than the total numbers of breaches for each industry because each
“record exposed” can be comprised of multiple types of information.

Breaking out as a trend in 2018, subcontractor and third-party breaches became a more common

occurrence, representing 102 of the total 1,244 breaches reported. In 2017, 124 breaches were
due to a third-party/subcontractor. Third-party/subcontractor breaches released four times the

number of exposed records compared to 2017 (4,823,234 records exposed in 2018 vs. 934,604
records exposed in 2017). Though only 6 percent of breaches in the medical industry and 5.2

percent of breaches in the education industry were due to subcontractors/third-parties, they
resulted in over 25 percent of sensitive records exposed for both industries.

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