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The Worst Data Breaches of 2009 |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
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By Laton McCartney
Every week for the past four years the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearing House (PRCH), an organization dedicated to empowering consumers and protecting privacy, has been chronicling data breaches on a weekly basis. These range from small, regional breaches, which may involve a local business or hospital, to national breaches that typically revolve around credit and debit cards. "These are the mega-breaches that can skew the figures in terms of the number of people victimized," says Paul Stephens, PRCH's director of policy and advocacy.
Based on PRCH's listings, here are the ten biggest, most damaging and most embarrassing breaches to date this year.
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