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. 2024 Nov 6;26:e59674. doi: 10.2196/59674

Table 2.

Incidents and individuals by types of breaches.

Type of breach Incidents (n=5158), n (%) Individuals affected (n=382,533,378), n (%)
Hacking or IT incident 2465 (47.7) 316,771,372 (82.8)
Unauthorized access or disclosure 1268 (24.5) 24,074,273 (6.2)
Theft 999 (19.3) 26,876,573 (7)
Loss 220 (4.2) 9,449,646 (2.4)
Improper disposal 110 (2.1) 2,093,033 (0.5)
Other 84 (1.6) 1,188,272 (0.3)
Unknown 12 (0.2) 2,080,209 (0.5)