On Thursday, Kevin Poulsen, senior editor for Wired News, noted in his blog (blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/), a milestone in the number of records that have been compromised in data breaches since the ChoicePoint breach nearly two years ago:
ââ?¬Å?Rapid-fire announcements this week by U.C.L.A. (800,000 records) and Aetna (130,000) moved the total to the threshold, when Boeing revealed yesterday that a laptop recently stolen from an employeeââ?¬â?¢s car contained names, Social Security numbers and other data on 382,000 current and former employees of the aerospace giant ââ?¬â? bringing the total to a grim 100,152,801 records (as of this post).ââ?¬Â