Keychain items mysteriously disappeared

After returning from a trip overseas, I came home to a computer with about half of the original keychain items saved. Initially I thought that my browser (Omniweb 5.5) was not accessing those items, but after opening up KC I was surprised to find about only 100 of the original 250 items there.
Any ideas? Can't recall if this happened before or after applying the latest security update.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the feedback.
Reset Safari, IIRC, also deletes your com.apple.Safari.plist, bookmarks, history, cookies, and any passwords to sites you've already visited that require them. As a precaution, whenever I plan on resetting Safari, I always make copies of these folders in ~/Library: /Cookies, /Keychains, and /Safari and the /Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist and after resetting it, reinstall them if they were deleted or replaced
I think you definitely hit on what caused the problem. Good luck.

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