160 Million Government Records Exposed in Data Breaches Since 2014, Study Finds

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160 Million Government Records Exposed in Data Breaches Since 2014, Study Finds
July 25, 2019
https://fortune.com/2019/07/25/government-data-breaches-research/

Government data should be secure, right? Think again. A new study has discovered 443 breaches involving 168,962,628 records in the past 4.5 years.
These figures include database breaches, as well as electronic and paper breaches, according to findings by technology research website Comparitech, which analyzed government data breaches since 2014, using reports by the Identity Theft Resource Center.

The agencies that have proven to be the most vulnerable? The U.S. Postal Service and the Office of Personnel Management. The agencies take the top two places in the list of the Top 10 largest breaches by number of records exposed, with 60,000,000 and 21,500,000 records exposed respectively, and both appear twice in that list.
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