Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency

[Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070313114354.htm


If Phil Howard's calculations prove true, by year's end the 2 
billionth personal record -- some American's social-security or 
credit-card number, academic grades or medical history -- will become 
compromised, and it's corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are 
primarily to blame. By his reckoning, electronic records in the 
United States are bleeding at the rate of 6 million a month in 2007, 
up some 200,000 a month from last year.

Howard, an assistant professor of communication at the University of 
Washington, bases his projections on a review of breached-record 
incidents as reported in major U.S. news media from 1980 to 2006. The 
total through last year stood at 1.9 billion -- or roughly nine 
records per American adult.

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