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2007: A Year of Record Data Breaches



By Baselinemag

  Table of Contents:
  1. 2007: A Year of Record Data Breaches
  2. Chief Cause of Data Breaches
  3. List Toppers of Data Breaches 1
  4. List Toppers of Data Breaches 2
  5. List Toppers of Data Breaches 3
  6. Weak Sector Security

See the data behind the substantial rise in identity theft and data breaches from 2007—a record year.

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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
Type of BreachIncidentsPercentage
of Total
Incidents
Incidents
With
Unknown
Records
Incidents
With
Unknown
Records
Percentage
of Incidents
With Unknown
Affected
Rewards
Compromised paper documents8018.5%297,7335062.5%
External hacker breach7717.895,405,1652532.4
Stolen/lost laptop(s)6715.52,029,1081826.8
Erroneous Web posts5412.5360,09159.2
Stolen/lost storage media4811.17,506,5001327.0
Stolen/lost computer(s)4710.91,692,8641021.2
Internal data theft (digital)173.918,979,955317.6
Network security lapse143.2137,506535.7
E-mail sata leak81.910,813337.5
Miscellaneous71.610,659342.8
Unsecure data transfer61.31,352,600116.6
Unauthorized data
access/disclosure
61.3467,500350.0
Total431     a120,250,494139     32.2
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center



 
 
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