1. Most of the data breaches reported to the attorney general occurred in 2012.

2. Two separate breaches have been made public since 2014.

3. The online retailer suffered one of the biggest data breaches yet reported by an online retailer.

4. Hunt has collected the data from many of the large data breaches over the last few years.

5. Data breaches like this happen far more frequently than the public might realize.

6. This is even as news credit of breaches at retailers becomes more common.

7. With all IT data breaches there is a common cycle.

8. Enterprise breaches are about more than going after credit card numbers.

9. Most security breaches can take weeks or even months to discover, IBM has estimated.

10. In most cases, only the verified breaches make it to the light of day.

11. Some of those breaches could become public if the companies elect to make an announcement.

12. The attack is one of the largest corporate breaches thus far reported.

13. The leak was one of the largest breaches of classified material in US history.

14. Millions of people have had their information stolen because of database breaches at retailers.

15. More often than not, data breaches are the result of some form of malware intrusion.