Odds of losing confidential personal data is increasing

This article Electronic Medical Records: The Good, Bad, And Ugly was a trigger to this post.

If you lose your medical record along with 10 or 1000 others will it make any difference to you? I think it will be more traumatic if you are amongst few as the redress modes will be different.

What about losing credit card details?

Imagine now even malware can have QA and botnet is an industry they even run help desk. Added to this (probably) unethical practices like this and sophisticated attacks like this the chances of losing confidential information is increasing.

What are the odds does an average citizen have against these? Maybe high in places like USA & Europe but in a developing country they are pretty low.

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