Data Breaches Pass 100 Million Mark: Is Your Data Safe?

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In December, a milestone of sorts was reached when Boeing Co. disclosed that a laptop containing names, SSNs, home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of 382,000 current and former employees had been stolen from an employee's car.

The theft pushed the number of records compromised due to security breaches over the 100 million mark, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which tracks breaches dating to the ChoicePoint incident in 2005. The number of individuals affected isn't known, because some individuals may be the victim of more than one breach.

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