An average of 16 online records were breached every second in the first half of 2015, according to a new global report released Wednesday.

A total of 888 data breaches occurred in the first half of 2015, compromising 245.9 million records worldwide, according to the Breach Level Index report. The number of breaches was relatively flat compared with the last six months of 2014, but the figure increased by 10 percent from the 803 data breaches in the first half of 2014.

Produced by global digital security company Gemalto, the report found that the largest number of data records lost or stolen during that period were not in the retail, financial services or even government sectors: they came from the health care industry.  In the first half of 2015, the health care industry lost 84.4 million records in 187 breaches, the most of any industry.

“Personal health information is much different and more valuable to hackers than your personal identifiable information that is stolen in the high-profile retail breaches you read about,” said Nick Maletta, cyber liability practice leader at Holmes Murphy & Associates Inc. “This is because you can cancel your credit cards, update account numbers and change that information more easily than changing your past medical history, which can then be used by hackers to create gain through fraud or fake identities.”