The government sector reported 268 incidents of data breaches from January 2009 to May 2012, reports Help Net Security. The breaches exposed a combined total of more than 94 million records. According to research by Rapid7, the number of PII records exposed from 2010 to 2011 increased by almost 170 percent. The leading causes of such losses were unintended disclosure, loss and theft of portable devices, physical loss and hacking, the report states. Meanwhile, a Maine sheriff’s office is warning approximately 180 people who were recently arrested to monitor their personal accounts after their Social Security numbers were inadvertently made public last week for “a fairly limited period of time.”
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