Reference Desk: Infographic: Largest Data Breaches of All Time and the DataLossDB
The infographic comes was designed by Nathan Yau at Flowing Data.
Direct to Largest Data Breaches of All Time” infographic
The data for the infographic comes via the DataLossDB from the Open Security Foundation. This is an EXCELLENT resource tracking data losses around the globe. Plus, stats, links to other databases, a daily update, monthly reports, and much more.
Filed under: Data Files, News, Reports

About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.