The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has created in an interesting tool, a "Chronology of Data Breaches." It doesn't promise that it is comprehensive; what it does say is that it is a "useful indication of the types of breaches that occur, the categories of entities that experience breaches, and the size of such breaches."

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