[privacy] 93,754,333 Examples of Data Nonchalance

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Mon Sep 25 16:47:01 CDT 2006


* Valdis Kletnieks:

> And given that most of the breaches have been in the US, it's safe to guess
> that most of the 93M have been US resident's records.  With the population
> sitting at just under 300M, that means a 1 in 3 chance your stuff has
> been swiped.

I would expect that the affected part of the population is somewhat
smaller because the breaches (or more precisely, the leaked data) are
not totally uncorrelated.


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