Hack Attacks Now Leading Cause Of Data Breaches
January 13, 2012 No CommentsSOURCE: Wall Street & Technology
The majority of data breaches stem from hack attacks, followed by data that’s lost while physically in transit. That’s according to a forthcoming study from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), which assessed all known information relating to the 419 breaches that were publicly disclosed in the United States in 2011. A copy of the report was provided to InformationWeek in advance of its release.