TransUnion's report on H2 2024 fraud trends emphasizes the severity of data breaches in the US, which have reached historic levels in the first half of 2024. Healthcare, financial services, and education are among the industries with the highest volume of breaches. Healthcare also had the most significant breach, with criminals targeting third-party service providers like payroll services, medical billing vendors as a source for multiple user credentials. Contrary to healthcare, financial services were mostly exposed to primary data breach which is a direct attack on the organization. Top confidentiality data compromised in the US data breaches H1 2024 includes name, social security number (SIN), date of birth, home address, medical history, driver's license, banking account numbers, phone numbers, healthcare provider & insurance account number. Substantial year-over-year increase has been observed in the breach of medical history data, healthcare provider and healthcare...