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new at 6 the number of victims who had
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personal information stolen in data
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breaches last year soared across the
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country that's according to a new report
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from the identity theft Resource Center
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released just today the it team's Dan
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lamparello is at the live desk with the
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impact across the country and here in
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main Dan well Marissa it feels like
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almost every day we're hearing about
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another company being targeted by a
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Cyber attack and it shows in the numbers
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as well that new report shows more than
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a billion data breach notices went out
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to people who had their personal INF
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access last year with more than a
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million of them going to Mayers now
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according to the identity theft Resource
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Center the number of overall data
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breaches at companies large and small
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decreased by just 1% last year but the
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number of notice sent notices sent to
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victims increased by more than 300% from
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419 million in 2023 to 1.7 billion in
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2024 driving the majority of those
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notices last year were data breaches at
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some major companies including Ticket
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Master and United Health the ID theft
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Resource Center says it's impossible to
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know how many individuals are actually
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represented in the notices that went out
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but it's likely the majority of
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Americans had their info compromised in
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a breach last year most adults
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Reed at least one data breach notice but
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there's a significant number who
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received multiple data breach notices
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during the course of a year only
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20% of individual idual and 20% of
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businesses say they were not impacted by
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a data breach in the previous year
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that's a huge number now the center says
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many of the data breaches last year
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could have been prevented if the
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companies involved had instituted better
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cyber security practices like multi
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authentication on your side I'm Dale
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larell Greg yeah the Avalanche of this
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continues Dan thanks for
