Folks I try to stay positive…I try to believe that those who should be protecting stuff are protecting that stuff. I try to avoid sarcasm as I write about certain aspects of security or OPSEC - but I lose the battle sometimes.
Case in point: Did you really think your personal information was protected?
Let me share something I read recently in the Washington Post:
“U.S. corporations, governments, and universities reported a record 516 consumer data breaches in the first nine months of this year, incidents prompted chiefly by hackers and employee theft. About 80 percent of the breaches involved digital records, while the remainder stemmed from the loss, theft or exposure of paper-based records. Some 30 million records on consumers have been exposed so far this year but there is currently no federal requirement for organizations that exprerience a data breach or loss to acknowledge precisely how many consumers nationwide may have been effected. More than 36 percent of the breaches so far this year have been at U.S. businesses, while educational institutions were the second most frequent source of incidents (21 percent).”
516 breaches - 30 million records exposed - 9 months - no reporting requirement
I am at a loss for words. Well, not actually a loss - many words are running through my mind. I just don’t want to put those words on this blog. This is just sick - I need a drink.
Keep the Faith! (even though it can be hard at times)
Revelator
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