Data Breaches up 69% in 2008

It only the first half of 2008, but compared to the same period in 2007, there is a 69 percent increasein data breaches. Every type of business categories (health care, banks, education, construction, government and military) reported increases!

• Link from washingtonpost.com, posted on July 1, 2008 – http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/data_breach_reports_up_69_perc_1.html

The Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego tracked 342 data breach reports from Jan. 1 to June 27. More than one-third of the reports came from businesses, a 27 percent increase over business breaches for all of 2007.