Privacyrights.org/data-breaches was a tool that I didn’t even know existed until today. As stated on their about page, “Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a nonprofit organization focused on increasing access to information, policy discussions and meaningful rights so that data privacy can be a reality for everyone”. They record data breaches from all the way back until 2005. They can break down each incident by state, date, breach type and even give a summary of what happened. While scrolling through breaches with the most reported records impacted, I saw that in 2006 the United States Department of Veterans Affairs had a physical breach that had personal information of about 26.5 million people. As a veteran that uses the VA, information like this is alarming. Researchers can use this database in a multitude of ways. They can break down what years were most affected. What states are most vulnerable to particular types of attacks? What major corporations have a history of data breaches and what don’t? Depending on the research they can target fortune 500 companies or even our national government. Knowledge is power and this website provides a lot of it.