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The year prior, 2018, had the highest number of records affected, exactly 84,794,645.
This year is set to be record-breaking, too.
So far, there have been 137 recorded government breaches affecting 22.4 million records.
The number of breaches is already greater than the 120 breaches seen last year.
The number of records involved is over four times the number breached in 2022 (5 million).
Finally, there is the 2017 California Secretary of State incident in which 19.2 million records were exposed.
Three government agencies are known to have paid up.
