The 2010 ITRC Breach Report develops some statistics based upon the type of entity involved in the data exposure. The report is a project supported by Grant No. 2007-VF-GX-K038 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

According to the Identity Theft Resource Centre, out of the 662 breaches it registered in 2010, close to 40% of the listed breaches had no cause specified (i.e., the company didn’t know where the breach came from), and nearly 50% of the breaches did not list which records were compromised.