In the first six months of 2018, a total of 4,553,172,708 records were compromised, an increase of 133 percent over the first-half of 2017, a report from Gemalto has found.
The report shows there were 945 security incidents reported in the first half of 2018, which is 18.7 percent fewer than the 1,162 breaches disclosed in the period a year prior.
559 of the breaches occurred in North America and 308 in Australia. The third highest-breached country was the United Kingdom, with 22 incidents.
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