CU Times Staff Reporter

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — With the Nov. 1 Red Flag regulations deadline approaching from the Federal Reserve Board, a recent study by the Identity Theft Resource Center showed that data breach reports are up 69% in 2008 from the same time period in 2007.

Tom Harkins, chief strategy officer of Secure Identity Systems and former vice president of risk and security for MasterCard, said that he is not certain that the survey truly reflects an increase in data breaches.

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