Military and government agencies suffered 104 cyber security breaches that exposed personal information in 2010. That’s up from 90 the year before. Those figures come from a study by the Theft Resource Center. NextGov reports, even though breaches rose, the number of records actually released fell. Government, industry and the non-profit sector together reported 662 breaches. To be counted as a breach, an event must put at risk a person’s name plus other ID information such as Social Security or driver’s license number. In one case, a breach exposed records of 207 thousand Army reservists.

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