An Electronic Transportation Payment System, ETPS, consists of radio-frequency identification tags andsmart cards to facilitate an electronic payment or tolling transaction. This research investigates thesecurity and privacy breaches that arise with such systems. A website was created to develop awarenessof the problem and it contains a database of news events in which violations of security and privacybreaches are reported. It also defines ten breach attributes that characterize breaches and assigns thosepertinent to the events appropriately. This website makes articles available to users as well as provides aquick summary of each article. Users can sort news articles by year, location, breach identificationnumber and by type of breach. It also provides statistical counts and bar graphs of the number of breachesthat have occurred worldwide by each year, by type and by attribute.In this study, the ETPS database has been expanded and a more thorough statistical analysisprovided. It also facilitates login-protected accounts for researchers to continue adding articles to thedatabase, identity the breach-types and attributes and submit a summary. The expanded website hasscripts implemented that automatically update the bar graphs as the database expands. A preliminarydatabase of news events resulted in an observed surge of breaches in 2008. This study reinforced thevalidity of this result and finds that the surge continued in 2009. This research study investigates apossible correlation in the surge of breaches and transponder technology usage. The study has also foundthat when a privacy breach occurred, it was likely that a security breach occurred.
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