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Data breaches remain high

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Dissent

Jeff Blumenthal reviews some stats on breach reports with a local eye to Pennsylvania and New Jersey in this news story.  A snippet:

Sasha Romanosky, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University whose research revolves around data breaches, said Pennsylvania and New Jersey are slightly above the national average for rate of reported identity theft, which is about 30 reports per 100,000 people between 2002 and 2009. In Pennsylvania, there were 32 per 100,000 people, while New Jersey was higher at 38. Romanosky said this data did not fluctuate much after the advent of the new legislation.

Read more in the Philadelphia Business Journal


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