[attrition] 88 million... is it really an accurate number?
lyger
lyger at attrition.org
Tue Jun 27 19:33:19 EDT 2006
http://attrition.org/dataloss/rant/88million.html
Tue June 27 18:47:25 EDT 2006
Lyger
For the past few days, I've been doing more research on recent data
breaches, especially including types of breaches and numbers affected. One
number keeps coming up in the media: 88 million. In many cases, "88
million" is described as the number of compromised records. In other
cases, it is described as "Americans" or "people":
[...]
We know that the number 88,000,000 or so has been calculated by adding the
number of total people affected from all listed breaches since Choicepoint
in February 2005. Looking at this total though, it seems to me that the
number is inflated due to the fact that it appears to represent unique
individuals. The VA breach really caused me to take a better look at the
situation and rework some of the numbers.
[...]
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