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Payment cards: Top target in data breach attacks
"Hacking gets the criminal in the door but malware gets him the data"
By Elinor Mills
Published: 16 April 2009 11:02 BST
More records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined as a result of a few large breaches involving payment cards, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Last year, 295 million records were compromised and there were 90 confirmed breaches, the Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Investigations report found.
The top five breaches accounted for 93 per cent of total records compromised and as a percentage of caseload, 80 per cent were payment card breaches while payment card data represented 98 per cent of all records compromised last year.
Details at:
http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0...39420138,00.htm
"Hacking gets the criminal in the door but malware gets him the data"
By Elinor Mills
Published: 16 April 2009 11:02 BST
More records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined as a result of a few large breaches involving payment cards, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Last year, 295 million records were compromised and there were 90 confirmed breaches, the Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Investigations report found.
The top five breaches accounted for 93 per cent of total records compromised and as a percentage of caseload, 80 per cent were payment card breaches while payment card data represented 98 per cent of all records compromised last year.
Details at:
http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0...39420138,00.htm