While cyber criminals are becoming more and more sophisticated each day, a cyber attack could lead to slow computer performance, costly data loss, and even potential legal liability. Ultimately, this takes a huge toll on your productivity and profitability.
According to mid-year 2017 data breach QuickView report, a Virginia based company who keeps an eye and monitor data breaches, announcing that there have been 2,227 publicly revealed data compromise events through June 30th enabling attackers to steal over 6 billion records.
According to riskbasedsecurity:
“From fraud and phishing to hacking and unprotected databases – we have it covered in the Mid-Year Data Breach QuickView Report. Risk Based Security is the definitive source for breach intelligence with over 2,200 publicly disclosed breaches cataloged and documented for this report. Download your copy of the free report to read more about:
– The 6 billion records exposed year-to-date.
– Breach activity by economic sector.
– Leading causes of data loss by record type.
– Breach severity trends across the first two quarters.”
The report says that attackers are increasingly using phishing methods against US citizens to steal employment and tax related data. In 2016 about 160 phishing attacks were responsible for stealing employees information. However, things have gone worse in the first six months of 2017 since there has been a 25% rise in these attacks.