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2007: A Year of Record Data Breaches - Chief Cause of Data Breaches (
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CHIEF CAUSE OF DATA BREACHES
While hackers account for the most compromised records,
improperly discarded and secured paper lead the number of breach incidents
in 2007. The number of compromised records doesn’t always tell the
whole story, since many breaches had unknown number of records exposed—some
suspected of totaling in the hundreds of thousands. | | credit | |
| Compromised paper documents | 80 | 18.5% | 297,733 | 50 | 62.5% | | External hacker breach | 77 | 17.8 | 95,405,165 | 25 | 32.4 | | Stolen/lost laptop(s) | 67 | 15.5 | 2,029,108 | 18 | 26.8 | | Erroneous Web posts | 54 | 12.5 | 360,091 | 5 | 9.2 | | Stolen/lost storage media | 48 | 11.1 | 7,506,500 | 13 | 27.0 | | Stolen/lost computer(s) | 47 | 10.9 | 1,692,864 | 10 | 21.2 | | Internal data theft (digital) | 17 | 3.9 | 18,979,955 | 3 | 17.6 | | Network security lapse | 14 | 3.2 | 137,506 | 5 | 35.7 | | E-mail sata leak | 8 | 1.9 | 10,813 | 3 | 37.5 | | Miscellaneous | 7 | 1.6 | 10,659 | 3 | 42.8 | | Unsecure data transfer | 6 | 1.3 | 1,352,600 | 1 | 16.6 | Unauthorized data
access/disclosure | 6 | 1.3 | 467,500 | 3 | 50.0 | | Total | 431 | a | 120,250,494 | 139 | 32.2 |
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center |
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