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10 Most Common Types of Personally Identifiable Financial Information
In 2021, IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach report evaluated that the average financial loss associated with a data breach rose from $3.86 million in 2020 to $4.24 million in 2021, marking the single highest year-over increase in the 17-year history of the report. With personally identifiable information being the target in 67% of criminal attempts to breach data, this trend has captured even the attention of Congress.