Data Breach 2024. Social security numbers, names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers were in the 2.9 billion records within a data breach. 35,900,145,035 known records breached so far in 9,478 publicly disclosed incidents.

Cyberattacks and data breaches during the first half of 2024 have included the ransomware attacks against change healthcare and cdk, as well as data theft and extortion attacks targeting. Npr’s ailsa chang talks with mit professor stuart madnick about the frequency of data breaches, and what people should do if their personal information is compromised in one.