Interest in cyber insurance and risk continues to grow as a result of high-profile data breaches.

The Identity Theft Resource Center says there have been 1,140 breaches in 2017, so far (as of November 1), surpassing the 2016 record of 1,093 breaches. There have been 171.6 million records exposed so far in 2017. The business sector accounted for 52% of the 2017 breaches and 91% of records exposed.

These figures do not include the many attacks that go unreported. In addition, many attacks go undetected.

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