about 90 percent of businesses are at risk of losing your personal information

Two sources of IDentity Theft & Data Breach information areas I watch are:

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse  &   Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC)

Of particular note from PRC’s website is this:

“A Chronology of Data Breaches — Over 251 million data records of U.S. residents have been exposed due to security breaches since Jan 05.”

That is 4 years ago, this month, that they started trackingthat data!  Keep in mind - How many people are there in the U.S.? About 300 Million - from newborn to long-lived.

I know my data has been breachd at least once.  Got the letter stating my data was on the source that was lost/stolen.

You may want to visit the Chronology of Data Breaches page and see if a company you know has been breached, possibly with your data.  Why? - An article reported indicate that about 90 percent of businesses are at risk of losing your personal information.

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