Record Data Breaches in 2007

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It doesn’t matter which security group you talk to, the general consensus is that it has been a bad year for data breaches. Hopefully these numbers change for the better in 2008.

Foley's group lists more than 79 million records reported compromised in the United States through Dec. 18. That's a nearly fourfold increase from the nearly 20 million records reported in all of 2006. Another group, Attrition.org, estimates more than 162 million records compromised through Dec. 21 — both in the U.S. and overseas, unlike the other group's U.S.-only list.
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and I bet they ALL have a service to offer to prevent such breaches. ;)

Any numbers from a security company are obviously biased.

Since we already know that 45.6 million credit card numbers were taken from TK Maxx in 2006, how do they justify last year's total of 45.6 million?


Hmmm... lets just fudge these 2006 numbers into the 2007 total and voila, massive growth!

Now, if you put those 45.6M back where they actually happened, 2006 was 65.6 million, and 2007 was 34.4 million.
 
WTB: Edit button.... *Last year's "total" of 20 million.*

Obviously they've simply looked at the actual numbers, realized they don't help sell services, and decided to take all the reported dates because they suddenly make it look like explosive growth.
 
Maybe they only include a certain severity level of records in their reports? For example, a teenager stealing 20 million records to prove to his friends that he is the God of hacking might not be included in these statistics.
 
HOCP4ME said:
Maybe they only include a certain severity level of records in their reports? For example, a teenager stealing 20 million records to prove to his friends that he is the God of hacking might not be included in these statistics.
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No, they simply used reported dates instead of actual dates to shift the 46 million into this year.
 
Tracking is very much on the rise. I pay $12 for a hair cut, and they insist on giving me an ID badge. One card for my wallet. One card for my keychain. They want all my information. I can understand the IRS or your doctor... but a for f'ing haircut? And what kind of safegaurds does a place like that have on my data? I said no way, and the employees actually got pissed, but everyone else that came in freely gave out full name, address, phone #, etc. It's only going to get worse.
 
Nemesis999 said:
No, they simply used reported dates instead of actual dates to shift the 46 million into this year.
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Yeah, I agree that that makes more sense. I was just putting more ideas out there.

Tracking is very much on the rise. I pay $12 for a hair cut, and they insist on giving me an ID badge. One card for my wallet. One card for my keychain. They want all my information. I can understand the IRS or your doctor... but a for f'ing haircut? And what kind of safegaurds does a place like that have on my data? I said no way, and the employees actually got pissed, but everyone else that came in freely gave out full name, address, phone #, etc. It's only going to get worse.
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All of that information is completely irrelevant. They don't need any of it as long as they get the one thing they will always get no matter what - your credit card data.
 
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