In 2019, the publicly reported data breach statistics reached 7,098, with over 15.1 billion records exposed. As we are yet to see how the end of 2020 will look like, data breaches in 2019 were at an all-time high with 284% more exposed records than in 2018. An upside of the situation was that 22.6% of exposed records were not taken. It's a good improvement compared to 18% in 2018. Although there were more records exposed in 2019, fewer were stolen.