Cutting Through The Mobile Security Noise: Breaches Come in all Shapes and Sizes

The report describes two major data breaches: attackers bypassed the IRS 'Get Transcript' security checks, compromising about 100,000 taxpayers’ files (attributed to organized crime), and hackers accessed personal information for roughly 1.1 million CareFirst customers. It notes the significant financial and detection-time impacts of breaches, citing a Ponemon study that estimates average breach costs and time-to-detection.