In the last year, more than 44 million records were
compromised as per the report presented by Verizon. Out of these 44 million
records, more than 50 percent took place due to hack attacks. There were 47,000
incidents of record breach have been mentioned in the recent report of Verizon.
The report is based on the information gathered by 19 entities around the
world. This is the largest collected sample by Verizon in a single year.
Verizon has discussed 8,621 confirmed data breach incidents in its report in
which 44 million records have been leaked.
As per the report shows, more than 50 percent of the
information has been leaked through hacking, about 40 percent of data is breached
due mal links, around 76 percent of the data is violated due to weak or no
security measures and ignorance of safety protocols. Verizon has also shown the
techniques used by the crooks. A single method is used by the cyber criminals
in a number of techniques. However, the deadly combination of hacking and
malware did not bring much success to these e-crooks.
The heavy majority of the attacks were committed by the
outsiders. But in some cases, the insiders were also involved from hand to
glove in the breach. The majority of the insider attacks were intentional and
their fiscally encouraged. In some really rare cases, the insiders sourced the
documents to leak by sending them to some other unauthorized persons by
mistake.
It is difficult to prevent the cyber attacks on data, but,
taking some precautions and using software like Folder Lock can prevent data breach that occurs due
to lack of security. Most of the attacks were on financial institutions due to
high rewards of frauds in shape of ATM and credit card scams. For more than
half of the data breach cases, the skilled cyber criminals are responsible, these
crooks thug people through spamming, payment frauds and identity thefts.
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