A Blow To My Ego
Symantec’s Global Internet Security Threat Report was released recently. Can anyone guess what sector represented the “highest number of known data breaches that could lead to identity theft”? (If you’ve already seen the report, Shhhhh!)
With 24% of total for the second half of 2007 (drum roll, please) Education topped the list! The good news: 24% is down from the “30% of the total” Education received in the previous report. The bad news: Education was the top ranked sector then as well.
Give that ESI has seen an increase of breaches thus far in 2008 (a trend mirrored industry-wide according to the Identity Theft Resource Center), it appears that Education will unfortunately top the next Global Internet Security Threat Report.
However this is not the biggest news from the report. With average identity netting criminals $1-$15, apparently I’m not even worth as much as the pizza I ordered for dinner the other night!
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