The current era of technology has risked the privacy of
businesses along with common users. The risks that are imposed to the digitally
saved files and folders are almost inevitable and people seem to be indifferent
about it. Whether you are living in America, China or in an African country,
you can be a potential target of it. The worst part is that this problem does not
look like getting solved anywhere near, instead, the issue is getting complex
and much more threatening with the time passing. If you give a glance to the
statistics, you will probably have an idea of how horrifying this risk is.
Among the most common form of complaints received in the
previous year are fraud’s with G’vernment's documents and identity thefts
related to it. It comprises almost 34 percent of the complaints received. Other
than that, frauds regarding credit cards and utilities that comprise 17 percent
and 14 percent of the total complaints. On the other hand, among the overall
data theft incidents, malicious attacks by online criminals are the most expensive
ones as they cost almost $157 per compromised record. But, cyber criminals are
not the only one to be blamed, human error is the most common channel of data
breach that is responsible for almost two-thirds of these incidents.
Hackers are always looking for some loopholes in your data
security and usually they find one, that is why, nearly 33.8 percent of the
data thefts are a result of hack attempts. Another terrifying and hazardous
fact is that many of the data theft incidents remain unknown for days. In 2012,
almost 66 percent of such incidents remained undiscovered for nearly a month,
which means more destruction. The early victim is known about the stolen
information, the better steps he or she can take to neutralize its effects.
You will be surprised to know that as much as 77 percent of
the time hackers are able to install their malware program on your system and
easily get access to your information. Apart from that, hackers get hold of
your records by some infectious email attachments (47%), web drives (8%), email
link (5%) and remote injection by (3%). Hackers easily get access to your
information by these methods and carry your records easily. However, if you
have put some kind of Copy Protection on
your sensitive files, they will not be able to easily copy the data and walk
away. That is why, it is necessary for you to take some effective measures
against these threats.
You might be thinking that you cannot be a target of such an
incident or even if you become a target, you will not suffer much. So, you
better see these figures that will blow your mind away. On an average, every
data breach almost cost $136 throughout the world. In the US, the average data
breach incident is even more expensive as it costs early $194 and a company
that suffer such an incident suffer almost a loss of $5.4 million. Now, you
must be terrified, if not, then you should be.
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