Hacking and malware are always blamed for being the biggest issues behind data breaches, but according to TrendMicro's latest analysis of the years of data, they are only the second biggest cause accounting for 42% of data breaches: 25% are caused by "device loss" (or theft). The retail sector is typically held up as being the riskiest area for data breaches: not true, it comes fourth in line after healthcare, education and government. As for your personal identification information (PII), apparently there is such a surplus of PII available in the underground market that the price has collapsed from $4 per PII to just $1 in the past year.
Hacking and malware are always blamed for being the biggest issues behind data breaches, but according to TrendMicro's latest analysis of the years of data, they are only the second biggest cause accounting for 25% of data breaches: 42% are caused by "device loss" (or theft). The retail sector is typically held up as being the riskiest area for data breaches: not true, it comes fourth in line after healthcare, education and government. As for your personal identification information (PII), apparently there is such a surplus of PII available in the underground market that the price has collapsed from $4 per PII to just $1 in the past year.