Face the Facts USA: Where the battle lines are lines of code

Each day in the 100 days leading up to Election Day, our website and Face the Facts USA will be partnering to bring you one exhaustively researched and vetted, non-partisan fact about a major issue facing our nation.

FACT #23: Where the battle lines are lines of code

The federal government has suffered a nearly 680 percent increase in cybersecurity breaches in the past six years.

Washington spent $13 billion to protect information technology in fiscal 2011 amid 42,887 incidents involving data loss or theft, computer intrusions and privacy breaches.

That’s 117 per day. The attacks ranged from a hack of health data that exposed 280,000 Social Security numbers to a stolen NASA laptop that compromised command of the International Space Station.

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