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Re: Financial Firms Losing Data
From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:53:52 -0700
Nice job, Chris. I thought that I've seen more re: stolen laptops than digital break-ins. On 9/26/06, lyger <lyger () attrition org> wrote:
(Since I know Chris wouldn't do this himself...) ;) http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=104574&f_src=darkreading_section_296 SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 Which would be more likely to suffer data theft, a university or financial institution? If you've been reading the news lately, you probably said "university." But in New York, it's a different story. Nearly half of the 64 data breach incidents reported in the state between March and May of this year were by financial institutions and insurance companies -- not educational institutions, according to a researcher who's gathering the data. Only three of the 64 incidents were reported by schools, he says. Interestingly, most of the financial institutions' breaches weren't driven by hackers, says Chris Walsh, an information security architect who is independently researching breach trends using data from New York. "About two thirds of them reported a lost computer, and that's not counting lost tapes." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 366 incidents over 6 years.
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