[Dataloss] Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency

[Adam Shostack]

This is exciting stuff, and is an example of how research can be done
when we share data.  He's making his data available--it's largely, but
not entirely, driven by the attrition data set.

See
http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/43/6-million-personal-records-compromised-each-month-2-billion-in-total-by-december#more-43

Adam



On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Dissent wrote:
| http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070313114354.htm
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| If Phil Howard's calculations prove true, by year's end the 2 
| billionth personal record -- some American's social-security or 
| credit-card number, academic grades or medical history -- will become 
| compromised, and it's corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are 
| primarily to blame. By his reckoning, electronic records in the 
| United States are bleeding at the rate of 6 million a month in 2007, 
| up some 200,000 a month from last year.
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| Howard, an assistant professor of communication at the University of 
| Washington, bases his projections on a review of breached-record 
| incidents as reported in major U.S. news media from 1980 to 2006. The 
| total through last year stood at 1.9 billion -- or roughly nine 
| records per American adult.
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