The October 3, 2012, data breach might affect upward of 1.1 million people who were either Nationwide customers or sought a quote from the Ohio-based company.
Free mobile applications often come with unusual permissions that can put users' data at risk, such as outgoing calling, camera access and SMS capabilities.
By 2020 the world is expected to generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers" while IT staff to manage it will grow less than 1.5 times.
Thirty-one percent of data breaches are caused by simple loss or theft, a new Forrester study reports, and another 27 percent of incidents are caused by unwitting misuse of data by an employee.
We read it in the headlines all too often: “Facebook, PayPal Users Urged to Check Logins After Hacking,” “Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Data at Risk,” “Zappos Says Hacker May Have Accessed Info on 24 Million Customers,” and most recently, “MasterCard, Visa Warn of Credit Card Data Theft.”