Security Brief Asia is reporting on new research showing more than 40 billion records were exposed by data breaches in 2021. According to the research from Tenable's Security Response Teams, they found a considerable increase in breach incidents, with 1,825 breach data incidents publicly disclosed between November 2020 and October 2021, compared with the same period in 2020, which saw 730 publicly disclosed events with just over 22 billion records exposed.