Why You Should Be TERRIFIED About The Shestorys Breach (and The Burch Twins)

I'll walk you through what a data breach means for you, why you should care, and what to do if youre involved in a leak. What is a data breach? Let's start at the beginning.

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So far, for the first half of 2024, we are on track for more data breaches than last year. And last year experienced a 72% jump over the previous year. And we're talking about really sensitive. Though data breaches can be a national security threat, 86% are about money, and 55% are committed by organized criminal groups, according to verizons annual data breach report.

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Following a breach, depending on which information was compromised, you may find yourself on the receiving end of targeted scams or picking up the pieces after. Data breaches happen so often that they rarely make the regular news cycle, outside of major stories like the national public data breach that exposed millions of social security numbers, the. While 1. 2 billion purloined credentials sounds scary, security experts who gathered in las vegas for the annual black hat hacker conference this week say that there's little cause for concern. You cant prevent a data breach, but you can control how resilient your data is to criminals when it's stolen. We explain what a data breach is and how you can limit its impact.

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