SecurityRatty: Data breaches and gas prices..

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Data breaches and gas prices..

2008-06-30 17:05:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage

Seems like the growth rate is the same - IRTC (Identity Theft Resource Center) just released some interesting stats. Apparently number of breaches in the first half of 2008 have risen 69% over the same period in 2007. Maybe gas prices have increased a bit more, but not by much...

Also other interesting nuggets -

Almost 40% have not disclosed the number of records breached.
Theft, either internal or external, have been the primary reason for the breach.

Wonder why we are not hearing this on the presidential campaign? A unified and national policy approach to this epidemic would be welcome (as would lower gas prices!)