Monday 22 July 2013

Calif. attorney general 2.5 million people were affected by the 131 breaches

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has released a first-of-its-kind data breach report  that includes statistics, recommendations and assessments based on breaches that were reported to the Attorney General's office during the 2012 calendar year.
California first data breach report finds that more than 1.4 million residents' data would have been safe had companies used encryption.
The report coverers 131 incidents in all, with the average breach accounting for 22.500 people. The retail sector reported the most data breaches with 26 percent of the cases, followed by the finance and insurance sectors with 23 percent and healthcare with 15 percent.
It's worth noting that more than half of the breaches involved intentional intrusions from the outside or intentional acts from insiders. The rest of the breaches, 45 percent, were largely due to failure "to adopt or carry out appropriate security measures," the report notes.

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