High-profile data breaches at major corporations and the usual assortment of state government agencies and educational institutions have highlighted the value of encrypting data, yet breach numbers continue to spike and big losses are becoming more common, writes Protegrity's Gordon Rapkin in the current issue of Database Trends and Applications. Apparently the market is now so saturated with stolen data that the price of each record has dropped from a high of $16 in 2007 to less than 50 cents today. But the intensifying number of successful attacks isn't the most distressing part of data breach reports.

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