The Identity Theft Resource Center, for instance, tracked 220 million personal records lost or stolen in data breaches last year, up from a paltry 35 million in 2008.

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The number of individual records breached in 2010 so far has in fact fallen by more than 90% compared to 2009, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, although the number of breaches is still on track to rise for the year.

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