Billions of personal data records are up for sale on the Dark Web as data breaches continue to occur at an alarming rate. According to Risk Based Security’s 2019 Midyear Data Breach report, there was a 54% increase in data breaches in the first half of 2019 compared to the same time period in 2018. In fact, they found that there was a 50% increase over the last 4-year period. The firm attributes the substantial … More
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