Security Firm Rapid 7 has published an interesting analysis on government data breach reported from January 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012. 268 incidents exposed more than 94 million records containing sensible information. The major number of records exposed is related to 2009, in particular in the month of October 2009 76 million US veterans. information was exposed after a defective hard drive was sent to a government vendor for repair and recycle before the data was erased. 2010 was the year with the high number of incidents publicly reported, a number three times higher of the number of. incidents reported in the first half of 2012.”]
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