Breach Examples
Data privacy research indicates that more than 70% of all security incidents come from internal threats. Moreover, not only are more data breaches coming from the inside, but the associated costs of such internal breaches are more than 50 times as costly when compared with external breaches. The following breach examples highlight recent privacy violations that originated within organizations.
- Data lost on 650,000 J.C Penney customers
January 31st, 2008
- Security breach compromises Fallon patient data
January 31st, 2008
- University of Georgia Looks into Server Breach
January 15th, 2007
- Horizon Blue Cross warns 300,000 members
January 31st, 2008
- Missing: 25 million child benefit records
December 14th, 2007
- Canada Fumbles Health Data in Security Breach
November 28th, 2007
- The Costs of Data Breaches Continues to Rise
December 19th, 2007
- Iowa breach exposes data on 3 million British would-be drivers
December 20th, 2007
- British Data Breach afftects 25 Million
December 18th, 2007
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