From 2005 to present, there have been a reported 535,267,233 data records breached in the U.S., ZDNet reports. That’s 1.7 times the U.S. population, and the number only reflects reported breaches. “Many, or perhaps most, of the breaches that have occurred over the past decade have no reported number of records associated with them. They’re designated as ‘unknown,’” the report states. Ken Hess writes that, if each record breached represents one account, “just about everyone who lives in the U.S. is at risk of having at least one part of his or her data hijacked from multiple sources. It also means that absolutely no one's data is safe.”
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