Calculating the costs of investigations, compensation, customer support and projected loss of revenue, it found that the average cost to a company per breached record declined for the first time since the numbers are tracked.
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.
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".
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%).
In 2016, CynergisTek has released the Redspin's 7th annual breach report: Protected Health Information PHII) [13] in which it has reported that hacking attacks on healthcare providers were increased 320% in 2016, and that 81% of records breached in 2016 resulted from hacking attacks specifically.
Nurse fired after 528 patients' records breached at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.
