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Resource Center), there have been 5,754
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data breaches between November
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by Stephen McPhail, Sr.
Please e-mail articles and press releases as attachments in Microsoft Word format to jeffowen@telecomreseller.com. Suggested length 2005 and November 2015 that have exposed Consultant, CMG (http://cmg-
is 250-300 words. At the end of the article, please provide contact 856,548,312 records. According to their data, T
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there were 783 breaches in 2014, the largest Lauren Sporck, Marketing Associate, OPSWAT his past holiday season was like many
for content and length. For further clariication, please visit www. telecomreseller.com and click on Submission Guidelines. Our Editorial number of data breaches in a single year to date. (www.opswat.com)
before with promotions and increasing
Calendar (also online) is useful for appropriate subject matter.
ITRC data also indicated that 29% of breaches discounts used to entice customers to
involved hacking incidents in 2014, compared to 1. TJX - 2003
buy or switch their internet, wireless, and other
Publisher
Douglas Green – publisher@usernews.com just 14.1% in 2007.
services. Both national and regional service A hacker managed to iniltrate TJX chains,
Associate Publisher & Director of Advertising
This shows an upward trend in the number
providers promoted price cuts to attract new including Marshalls and TJ Maxx, and stole
Carole Sangiorgio – carole@usernews.com of data breaches resulting from an outside customers (think chainsaws cutting through 45.7 million customer credit card and debit card
Executive Editor
cyber-attack. Although this data includes a styrofoam $$). As we know, this approach can be numbers. Although not thought to be responsible
Jeff Owen – jeffowen@telecomreseller.com comprehensive list of data breaches, whether successful in the short term, but what e ect do for the hack itself, a group of people in Florida
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large-scale or small, there are a few that stand these cuts have on revenue and perceived value were charged for buying customer credit card
Tracy Titus – accounts@telecomreseller.com out from the rest as some of the worst data over the long term?
data from the hackers and then used that data to
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breaches in history in terms of resulting costs Many subscription-based companies nd purchase $1 million dollars’ worth of electronic
Amy Rails – amyralls@telecomreseller.com and the number of records compromised. Below themselves lowering prices over time to remain goods and jewelry from Walmart. This breach
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breaches of all time.
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