Data Breaches Up 67% Over 2007The Washington Post, July 5, 2008 -- Businesses, governments and universities reported a 69 percent increase in data breaches in the first half of 2008 compared with the same period in 2007, according to a study by a non-profit fraud-prevention group. The Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego tracked 342 data-breach reports from Jan. 1 to June 27 that involved almost 17 million consumer records. More than one-third of the reports came from businesses in the first half of this year, a 27 percent increase over total breaches in 2007. The center found that data breaches among health-care providers and banks rose to account for 15 percent and 10 percent of cases, respectively.
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