This shouldn't be surprising. If you live in an area that promotes tourism you may find that several crimes never make the local newspapers. People won't want to come to visit and spend money if they think they may get robbed or mugged. So some burglaries and break-ins never see the light of day.
I think there is a value or quantity threshold where public accounting becomes mandatory; until that threshold is exceeded I believe the "organization" can deny it ever happened - even if it is your personal information they lost track of and it's you who is asking about it.
And if your lawyer does pin something on them they'd just give you a free service to some credit watch agency for a year.
On the other hand, there are several blogs and web sites that provide information on such problems. There is so much information overload that it is quite possible to conclude that things are much worse than they have ever been before. Having no empirical evidence whatsoever, I think that we just hear more bad news because we hear more news period, and there are more people in the world.
And, of course, bad news sells.
Over at Frequency X
blog they seem to be amazed that things are so quiet, given the proliferation of cheap, ready-made custom tools to automate the search and destroy mission.
--CF
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