You don’t have to be a big corporation to suffer a major cyberattack. In fact, small businesses are now the most common targets for cybercriminals. Why? Because they’re easier to get into – and more likely to pay up.
And while a Fortune 500 company might be able to eat the cost of a breach, most small businesses can’t.
According to IBM’s
Cost Of A Data Breach Report 2024
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the average cost of a data breach is $4.88 million.
Cybercriminals are changing how they attack small businesses. Instead of breaking down the door, they’re sneaking in with a stolen key…your login credentials.
It’s called an identity-based attack, and it’s becoming the top way hackers get into systems.
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The sheer scale of such an attack is staggering, and so was the confusion.
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This massive data exposure, stretching over a period of nearly three years, affected 4.7M Blue Shield members.
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