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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Numbers in the News

165 million

Number of active iOS and Android devices in the United States as of July 2012

$119

Cost per year to subscribe to “My Force”, an assault-prevention iOS app that connects user with a 24/7 call center who relay user’s GPS coordinates to the police

12 million

Number of Apple mobile ID numbers hacking group claims to have obtained from FBI computer this week

$31 million

Cost of resolving the most expensive data breach included in 2012 study by Ponemon Institute

780,000

Number of Medicaid patients who had personal information stolen after a hacker exploited a weak password to gain acess to the Utah Department of Technology Service’s server

 

SOURCES: Flurry Analytics, Cosmopolitan, NY Times, Healthcare Finance News, Ponemon Institute

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