DataBreachToday: Latest Email Breaches Compromised PHI of Nearly 30,000

A 2022 state of email security survey of 1,400 IT and security professionals by security vendor Mimecast found that phishing was the biggest culprit in breaches overall in 2021, with 36% of data breaches due, at least in part, to employee credentials stolen through a phishing attack.

Also, 96% of the Mimecast survey respondents said that their organizations had faced a form of phishing attack in the past year.