Over One Billion Records Exposed According to Risk Based Security, Inc.

RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 9, 2011 -- The slowdown in the global economy has certainly not translated into a corresponding slowdown in criminal efforts to compromise personal information, according to Risk Based Security, Inc .  The total number of records exposed during the first 9 months of 2011 is 176,385,870 compared to 88,473,589 records for all of 2010. An even more alarming statistic is that as of October 2011, there have now been over 1 billion records exposed according to research by the Open Security Foundation. Risk Based Security’s 3rd Quarter “Data