{"id":10642,"date":"2018-02-22T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/22\/data-breaches-at-federal-agencies-jumped-20-percent-last-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:15:12","slug":"data-breaches-at-federal-agencies-jumped-20-percent-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2018\/02\/22\/data-breaches-at-federal-agencies-jumped-20-percent-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Data breaches at federal agencies jumped 20 percent last year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 U.S. federal government agencies experienced a 20 percent increase in the number of data breaches last year since 2016, according to Thales\u2019 2018 Data Threat Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of this increase is due to the growing use of commercial cloud services 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