While it's been about 13 years since one of the first major data breaches reverberated on the nation's radar, there is still no slowing down—despite major security advancements—in the amount of incidents and consumers impacted every year.

The scale of some of the data breaches in 2018 have been staggering and the number of records compromised in the first half of the year had already surpassed the total number of breached records for all of 2017, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center's 2017 Data Breach Industry Summary report.