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# Data Breaches Affected Nearly 6 Billion Accounts in 2021

Posted by [The TruU Team](https://blog.truu.ai/author/truu) on January 27, 2022

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TruU Founder and CEO Lucas Budman discusses forces behind the rapid and ongoing growth of data breaches including the ever-increasing sophistication of threat actors, a greater number of connected IoT devices, and the protracted shortage of skilled security talent.

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