Reply #26: One thing I've always suspected..

[sendero]

... and now firmly believe.

Data such as this is a commodity product worth a lot of money. I'd bet just about anything that less than 10% of companies/organizations/government agencies protect this data as they would something tangibly valuable.

What I'm saying is, this data is being stolen, bought and sold on a regular basis and the vast majority of the time nobody even knows it.