 TITLE: Survey: Companies Fear Data Breaches, Invest in Security CONTENT: Despite Investments Made, Data Breaches Affecting More Organizations\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\nWhile most companies are spending more money to protect themselves against cyberattacks, the number of organizations that have suffered a data breach that involved the loss or theft of 1,000 or more records has spiked, with 63% reporting such a breach in 2019—up from 56% of respondents just two years ago.\nIn 2017 there were more than 1,600 data breaches just in the U.S., according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Though the number of data breaches actually dipped in 2018, more personal records are being exposed than ever before. In 2018, over 446 million personal records were exposed, up from 197 million in 2017.\nSo, whether companies are worried about the frequency of data breaches or the magnitude, at least in the U.S. those concerns are seemingly validated considering documented breaches in the past few years. END