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100 Million Data Breach Victims Since 2005
Posted on Dec 16, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Infoworld has an article on this. Note that the victim numbers aren’t precise and the Privacy Rights Clearninghouse doesn’t claim that they are meant to be. They are really all about tracking the scope of reported victims.
That disclosure pushed the total number of data breach victims on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Web site to 100,152,801, said Beth Givens, director of the consumer advocacy group.
Givens believes that the actual number of names that have been compromised since ChoicePoint is probably much higher than her tally. "I think the number 100 million is largely a fictional number, but what it really indicates is that this is a very significant problem," she said.
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft
Tags: data theft, security breach
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