ITRC Year End Report for 2008
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) released their year-end breach report:
Reports of data breaches increased dramatically in 2008. The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2008 breach report reached 656 reported breaches at the end of 2008, reflecting an increase of 47% over last year’s total of 446.
Dissent of PogoWasRight has some analysis. [link to http://www.pogowasright.org/blogs/dissent/?p=1133 no longer works] I’ll take a look at the full report shortly.
I just posted some additional analyses on my blog. I look forward to seeing what you make of their report.