Data breaches hit record in 2007

It was a bad year for data protection. Sarbanes-Oxley made this a priority at some companies, but that didn't stop the hackers. By some measures--including one from the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center--this sort of theft reached an all-time high in 2007. The level of theft was lifted by some really massive breaches, notably at TJX, where 94 million records were stolen according to Attrition.org. The numbers mask a lot of success at other companies. It's fair to say that awareness of the potential for these sorts of breaches is high. The problem is that most companies have finite resources to invest, and they are up against ever sophisticated adversaries.  

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- here's an AP article