The mob behind big data breaches

Verizon Business released a study claiming that organized crime is the force behind a large increase in data breaches of corporate electronic records. While conventional wisdom says that the insider threat is greater than the outsider threat, the study says that three-quarters of breaches were from outside the company. In all, 285 million records were breached last year, more than the previous four years combined. For all the eye-opening statistics, read the article.