Average American had personal data stolen at least 4 times last year, report says

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Average American had personal data stolen at least 4 times last year, report says
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You may have had your personal information stolen multiple times in 2019 and not know it.

published earlier this week. The website compiled public data breach information from various sources to com up with the results.

“There are many variables at play when determining how many times your data may have been compromised last year,” the report said.“Folks who use the internet more often, log in to a large number of accounts each day or aren’t online much at all have different risks,” the report added. The report points out that the breaches vary in severity. For example, while data is temporarily exposed in some data breaches, it isn’t always known if the data was actually stolen.

In other cases, however, such as the Facebook data breaches, exposed personal information has been documented as showing up in places like the dark web, where the information is often picked up by cybercriminal organizations.

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