Wednesday, June 2, 2010

A Data Loss Statistics Repository

DataLossDB is a research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide. The effort is now a community one.  

Help keep this Museum of Bitten Bytes going.
Open Security Foundation is the non-profit organization which runs the project. Their Web site, DataLossDB.org, asks for contributions of new incidents and new data for existing incidents. You can also contribute money.

Here is how some of their information is used...
The world's coolest data breach map!
Guaranteed to scare the dollars out of any tight-fisted CFO.
Voltage Data Breach Index