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Business are required to notify victims of data breaches from files they maintain. Below are the reported data breaches for each year since 2005 (effective date of the law).
Breach Report: 2005
Breach Report: 2006
Breach Report: 2007
Breach Stats Report: 2007
Breach Report: 2008 YTD
(Oct 7, 2008: 524 breaches exposing 30,396,010 Identities)
Reported by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
What happens to all this breached data? Click Here to find out.
Do you think a stolen laptop that has been encrypted is safe? Watch this video from Princeton University now playing on YouTube:
Click here for more information on this research from Princeton.
If your personal information has been maintained by any of the businesses, financial institutions, schools, medical/health care facilities, governmental, or military listed in any of these breach reports you could be at higher risk for identity theft. Note: lost records does not automatically equate to identity theft. Since 2005 over 200 million records where compromised in the United States alone.
If your identity is at risk you should begin to follow the "How to Protect Your Identity" outlined on this website. If you do not have the time or desire to regularly monitor your identity provided herein for free, you should consider a service that would fit your risk level and risk tolerance. We will help you evaluate both at no charge by calling the person that sent you to this website located on the Contact Us page.
Business are required to notify victims of data breaches from files they maintain. Below are the reported data breaches for each year since 2005 (effective date of the law).
Breach Report: 2005
Breach Report: 2006
Breach Report: 2007
Breach Stats Report: 2007
Breach Report: 2008 YTD
(Oct 7, 2008: 524 breaches exposing 30,396,010 Identities)
Reported by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
What happens to all this breached data? Click Here to find out.
Do you think a stolen laptop that has been encrypted is safe? Watch this video from Princeton University now playing on YouTube:
Click here for more information on this research from Princeton.
If your personal information has been maintained by any of the businesses, financial institutions, schools, medical/health care facilities, governmental, or military listed in any of these breach reports you could be at higher risk for identity theft. Note: lost records does not automatically equate to identity theft. Since 2005 over 200 million records where compromised in the United States alone.
If your identity is at risk you should begin to follow the "How to Protect Your Identity" outlined on this website. If you do not have the time or desire to regularly monitor your identity provided herein for free, you should consider a service that would fit your risk level and risk tolerance. We will help you evaluate both at no charge by calling the person that sent you to this website located on the Contact Us page.