Public sector organisations are behind a tenfold increase in data breach incidents reported to the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) Storage firm Imation found a 1,014 percent rise in reported breaches since 2007 across eight industry sectors logged by the ICO. The private sector as a whole recorded 1,159 percent rise with only one sector, telecoms, doing well enough to record no breaches in the most recent period. Between 2007 and 2008 local government reported 11 data beach incidents a figure that had grown to 188 by 2012.”]