Security Heavy » SOX http://www.securityheavy.com InfoSec, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Life in General Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:36:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 35 Million Identities Breached, $5 Billion in Losses in ’08 http://www.securityheavy.com/2009/04/35-million-identities-breached-5-billion-in-losses-in-08/ http://www.securityheavy.com/2009/04/35-million-identities-breached-5-billion-in-losses-in-08/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:37:19 +0000 Blogger in Chief http://securityheavy.com/?p=118 In 2008, according to Royal Group Services, a data breach damages indemnification provider, 35.7 million identities were compromised and 18 million records were stollen from financial services companies. The company, which specializes in PCI DSS insurance services, further reports that in ’08 companies paid an average of $202 per breached file and that the total cost of data breaches among financial services companies was $5 billion.

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Equally interesting was that Royal Group reported that the 35 million number was a 50 percent increase over 2007.

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