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So, I just glanced through this¹ Wikipedia entry and quickly added up all the numbers in the yearly lists of major data breaches and came up with this number:
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
So, I just glanced through this¹ Wikipedia entry and quickly added up all the numbers in the yearly lists of major data breaches and came up with this number:
929 million users / customers affected by major data breaches since 2005.
There's probably at least some / a whole lot of overlap in some, but still...
Thusly, it'd be unusual if any particular individual hasn't had at least some of their identity go astray.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach
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