Data Breach - Your Organization Needs A Plan

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse's Chronology of Data Breaches lists 3,671 incidents affecting 607,295,463 records since 2005,¹ including these three:

• A worker steals customer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information. In its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the company estimates that 8.5 million records are affected.
• A password-protected laptop containing former employee names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, and benefits information is stolen from a consultant's trunk with an estimated 5,800 records affected.
• Cyber-pickpockets tamper with PIN pads in retail stores and steal banking information from checkout keypads. Ninety-four thousand records are affected.