Data Breaches Get Personal: Symantec Intelligence Report, 2012

What may seem surprising is that a person’s real name is by far the most common item to be stolen in a data breach, where it is obtained 55 percent of the time.

December 20, 2012 / 11:20 IST
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Security breaches where user information becomes publically exposed or stolen – are a serious issue for an organisation. The exposure of customer data can lead to a loss of confidence in the organisation by its users. Even worse, the organisation could find themselves in violation of data privacy laws or on the receiving end of a lawsuit created by its users. According to Symantec’s 2012 Cost of a Data Breach Study conducted by Ponemon Institute, data breaches costs Indian organisations INR 2,105 on an average for each lost or stolen record, with the average total organisational cost of data breach being INR 53.4 million (5.34 crore). Click here for full story

first published: Dec 20, 2012 11:09 am

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