ITRC: United States last year 33% increase in incidents of data leakage
U.S. identity theft resource center (Identity Theft Resource Center, ITRC) announced this week the United States in 2010 played a total of 662 data leakage incidents, compared with 2009 (498 cases) 33% more, and suggested the U.S. government should be mandatory for the industry the report must provide data leakage.
ITRC said that apart from a small number of State website or the content of media exposure, many of the events are not available, or only a small number of information disclosure, display if not peremptory norms, many of leak will still be buried.
ITRC believes that mandatory reporting for medical information leakage have a positive impact. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 214 although the display from data leakage incidents, but the lack of information provided, for example, did not mention the names of the people, X-ray film or a Social Security number appears in the leaked data, made no public the seriousness of that leak. In addition, although some states mandatory reporting scale leakage of information to be submitted, but only to the state She led the state public event, according to statistics, a record 662 this year from the leak, about 20% from the mandatory the report states.
ITRC mainly from the state statistical reports and media reports, the definition of information covered by paper or electronic leakage of the personal name, Social Security number, driver's license codes, medical records or financial card information and so on.
Among them, the paper's data leakage incidents 20% of the total, and often exposed by local media, because the mandatory reporting mechanisms are generally not covered by the paper leakage. In addition, data leakage incidents main reason for malicious attacks, accounting for 17.1% of internal theft accounted for 15.4%, due to leakage of information outsourcing industry and the proportion of 14.6%, the proportion of errors when moving data, 12.9%, belong to accidents accounted for 6.8%.