40% spike in U.S. #DataBreach in 2016

1,093 from 780 from prior year with business sector topping the charts at 45.2% overall, followed by healthcare/medial industry with 34.5%.  And 55.5% (up from 17.7%) were related to hacking/skimming/phishing attacks.  Predominate were DEO spear phishing with related events to ransomware and SSN exposures.  Of course, the notification requirements may have trigger some but taking threshold for notification comes to balance out.
<source helpnetsecurity.com>