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Recent Egregious Data Breaches: How They Happened

January 5, 2016

Excerpt: We should be grateful for other peoples’ data breaches – they help us to improve our own security. In our breach-a-day world, we seem to have more data breaches than ever. They come fast and furious – rare is the day when we don’t hear of one or more breaches on the evening news or through online media. Attack vectors change constantly – those of us in information security have a deep sense of humility in the face of constant changes in threats as well as technology, policies and training to defend against those threats.

Herewith, a few of the famous data breaches of 2015 (and one from 2014) with lessons to be learned from how they happened.

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