Review the scope and impact of data security breaches in an effort to reduce exposure to a data breach incident.
The red line indicates when California SB 1386 went into effect, the first state to adopt such legislation. It is unlikely that there were fewer data security breaches in several years prior to 2006, but rather companies weren't required to make them public. Data breach incidents haven't just begun to occur in the past few years, rather the requirement to disclose those events gives a first view into the nature and severity of the problem. Publicly known data breaches prior to these laws going into effect are nearly all known as a result of fraud committed using the data, or by media leaks.
