However, with a reported number of 1.38 million records exposed at medical or health care institutions (the actual number could be a bit higher), businesses -- with a total of 5.85 million breached records thus far in 2014 -- are actually to blame for compromising more consumers, even though they've experienced fewer actual breaches.
It continues: "However, Sony has nevertheless accounted to 19 for all streaming income received at the lower album rate as if the exploitation between the streaming service and the end user was described as a 'distribution' or 'sale' and, by so doing, Sony has breached the recording agreements".
3,620,000 breached patient records in the year's single largest incident.
The issue of whether Mrs Clinton breached federal records rules has gained attention as she is expected to announce a run for president.
Republicans were trying to exploit that anxiety, noting that the accumulated federal debt was about to breach a record $13 trillion threshold even as Democrats were poised to add more.
The incidence of whip offences is reported to be down by 15% compared to a similar period last winter, with 196 breaches recorded from 22,661 rides since the new rules were introduced on 10 October.
But the volume of breaches recorded is also partly a result of technological advances that have made data more mobile over time, she says.
In fact, the rate of publicly known data breaches has been steadily rising for years, with 646 breaches recorded in 2008, a 46% increase over 2007, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.
The most common breaches recorded were associated with injection safety (10, 35.7%), equipment processing and sterilization (10, 35.7%), medication documentation (7, 25.0%), and environmental cleaning (6, 21.4%).
The average breach costs a company $5.5 million, or $194 for each record breached, according to a Symantec-sponsored study by the Ponemon Institute, an organization that tracks data breaches.
