New Verizon Breach Data Shows Outside Threat Dominated 2011

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By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
Feb 28, 2012

RSA CONFERENCE 2012 -- San Francisco, Calif. -- More than 85 percent of 
the data breach incident response cases investigated by Verizon Business 
last year originated from a hack, and more than 90 percent of them came 
from the outside rather than via a malicious insider or business 
partner.

Verizon today published a snapshot of data from its upcoming 2012 Data 
Breach Investigations Report, using data from its own caseload of some 
90 of its 855 breach cases for last year.

"This is the first year that we worked more cases outside the U.S. than 
inside. That ratio has been building and it makes the case that this is 
not a U.S.-specific problem. All regions are having data breaches," says 
Wade Baker, director of research and intelligence at Verizon Enterprise 
Solutions.

At the top of the list of compromised industries again was retail, 
financial services, and hospitality. And a big factor in this year's 
cases was the rise in hacktivist-based attacks, according to Baker.

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