National Public Data experienced a breach potentially affecting 2.9 billion individuals.

WD Associates announced a recent data security incident involving personal information including Social Security numbers and insurance information.

Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) in Boston, Massachusetts experienced a data breach in May 2023 that included Social Security Numbers.

DataNet Systems gas announced that the company experienced a data breach affecting District of Columbia (D.C.) voters, including email addresses.

Red Roof confirmed that the organization experienced a data breach in late September of 2023. The breach did not involve any Red Roof guest data.

According to a recent TransUnion report, Social Security Number has passed date of birth as second most often exposed credential in data breaches.

The Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) in Louisiana suffered a MOVEit data breach. MOVEit is a third party data transfer service used to send large files.

 Sixty-one percent of Americans believethat their data is not secure, according to a survey from PKWARE. Theft of financial and identity information causes the most concern among respondents, with the leading data at risk cited as Social Security numbers and banking information, including credit cards.  

The 21st Century is often referred to as the information age; the developing global marketplace has contributed to the entrance of new cultures and economies into the competitive global economy.  Due to globally available infrastructure and the development of global telecommunication/computing capabilities, it has enabled individuals, companies and countries to compete globally on a level playing field with traditional Western powers even from some of the most remote parts of the world.  Unfortunately this has also created conditions in which the threat of corporate espionage has been rapidly proliferating due to the ease threat actors can ply their trade both through physical and virtual actions against U.S. corporations.