Feeling Safer Yet?
Dec 10th, 2007 at 11:08 am by Susie
SEATTLE — Thieves are systematically pilfering sensitive personal data from companies, government agencies, colleges and hospitals like never before.
More than 162 million records have been reported lost or stolen in 2007, triple the 49.7 million that went missing in 2006, according to USA TODAY’s analysis of data losses reported over the past two years.
This year, news stories have been written about data losses disclosed by 98 companies, 85 schools, 80 government agencies and 39 hospitals and clinics, according to a database at tech security website Attrition.org.
Arrests or prosecutions have been reported in just 19 cases.
