Data Loss
DataLossDB is a research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide.
The effort is now a community one, and with the move to Open Security Foundation's DataLossDB.org, asks for contributions of new incidents and new data for existing incidentshttp://datalossdb.org/There are some frightening statistics available on this site:· In one of the biggest incidents Heartland Payment Systems, Tower Federal Credit Union, Beverly National Bank lost 130 million records in 2009.· The SONY corporation lost over 100 million records in two incidents in 2011· In 2011 Tianya, China’s biggest Internet forum lost 40 million recordsThere are some often quoted statistics available from various sources:· 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)
60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
93% of companies that lost their data centre for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without database management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
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