The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.
[citation needed] 95% of data breaches come from government, retail, or technology industries.
[2][3] As a result of data breaches, it is estimated that in first half of 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed.
[6] Over 26 billion records, including some from Twitter, Adobe, Canva, LinkedIn, and Dropbox, were found in the database.
It involved the background check databroker, National Public Data and exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion people.