excluding incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss
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The source adds the following information: "All incidents included in this report were reviewed and converted (if necessary) into the VERIS framework to create a common, anonymous aggregate data set."
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Global data breaches caused by hacking 2023-2024, by industry
Between November 2023 and October 2024, organizations in the manufacturing sector worldwide saw around 818 incidents of data breaches caused by hacking. The healthcare industry ranked second, with 745 data breaches in the measured period. Furthermore, hacking caused 564 data breach incidents in the professional sector.
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