More than 400 million consumer records were hacked in 2018, breaking a record over 2017.
The 2018 End-of-Year Data Breach Report from the Identity Theft Resource Center revealed that the figures indicate an increase of 126 percent from the previous year, setting a single-year record high for the number of hacked files, NBC News reported.
The report warned that using Facebook to log in to other platforms is very dangerous and allows hackers to access tokens that support automatic logins, which supports data breaches.
The report also warns that if hackers get ahold of an email address, they can easily hack an account. The worst kind of hack is that of medical files.
Medical records are popular among hackers since they can use the information to commit insurance fraud.
"You'll go to your doctor and suddenly there's all this new, fake, and incorrect information in your health file. That can create some serious problems," Dixon said.