Chronology of data breaches and hacking incidents
The good folks at privacyrights.org maintain a comprehensive list of data breaches starting from 2005, you’ll be surprised to see there are 10 reported incidents in the first 11 days of 2008. At the end of the page there is an interesting figure:
TOTAL number of records containing sensitive personal information
involved in security breaches in the U.S. 217,393,476
Folks at the Web Application Security Consortium maintain The Web Hacking Incidents Database a list dedicated to reported web application hacks. During the first 11 days in 2008 there appears to be only one webapp incident reported, in contrast to the data breaches list. It’s time companies reported pro actively on WebApp hacks, just like how they are mandate by law to report data breaches.
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