Financial Services Most Targeted by Cybercriminals in 2016 alongside industries like healthcare or retail
The trend is very interesting. Then, one can observe
that, the financial gains associated with corporate and customer data available
throughout the financial sector proved appetizing to cybercriminals in 2016.
Cybercriminals have always
gone where there is money to be made. Their main focus shifted to other more
lucrative industries like healthcare or retail. Targeting financial services,
criminals decided to go directly to the source money.
While the financial services industry was targeted the most by
cyber-attacks in 2016, data from the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index shows it ranked third by industry for the number of breached records;
likely due to investments in security practices.
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