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More than 700 million records were breached last year, according to security researchers at Gemalto. The firm's 2015 Breach Level report considered 1673 hacking incidents recorded during 2015, of which 964 were thanks to outsides and a whopping 398 thanks to bumbling staff and developers. Those figures are surprisingly …

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  1. m0rt

    Did we ever really have security and privacy online? As far back as I can remember (I remember reading an interview with Stallman in a Computer Weekly printed paper whilst sat at work) there has always been reports of breaches and they are not getting smaller.

    Suffice to say, if you don't want it leaked, don't put it online. Though to be fair, even if *you* don't, an agency that requests your details inevitably will.

    Loss of data/theft of data should be considered a criminal offence if stated precautions are not met. If you own a shotgun in the UK, you must have certain criteria met. If you don't you will have your shotguna nd license revoked pretty quickly. There should be a licensing system for keeping *any* personal data which can be revoked - meaning loss of income for a large list of companies. As well as potential criminal negligence charges.

    Yet here we are, talking about a bill that strives to undermine that in the UK.

    Death by a 1000 cuts.

    Privacy is dead. Long live security.

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    1. Halfmad
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      I'd love to see the data for information which wasn't put online - but which was held on servers which had online connectivity or some other oversight within network configs. Absolutely, as with social media if you really don't want to share and can avoid doing so - don't stick it online.

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  2. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    2 million records a day

    So that means we should expect a total loss of 120 million records today.

    With only 1 million almost accounted for already, we're due a major announcement any time soon.

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  3. Halfmad

    So..

    only 1 in 10 people then, time to get out the old D&D 10 sided die and give it a roll for 2016.. fingers crossed.

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    1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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      Re: So..

      ratio of 10 to 1 in what? Five to ten years?

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  4. Mark 85

    Considering that the total is just for last year and doesn't look at totals earlier, at what point will everyone's info be out there in the wild?

    I'm sure some suit in a boardroom is asking the same thing and coming to the conclusion: "Why bother with security? They breach us and take our data anyway. Let's just save some money for our bonuses."

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  5. Mikel

    The tip of the iceberg is 10%. The rest you can't see.

    So this is just what is reported, out of what was discovered - each of which leaves a large multiplier: undiscovered and unreported.

    Face it. If information is digitized, it is hacked.

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  6. k317
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    Incentive for security

    How about a simple reason to take the incentive to create secure system. Lets start small how about a $10 per record accessed, or a fine equal to the CEO's compensation for a year. Which ever is less.

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