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Many Data Breaches Perpetrated by Organized Crime

The notion of hackers as lonely, overweight tech-geeks who reside in their parents' basement is now an antiquated, and false, stereotype, according to a recent story on cybercrime from The Washington Post. Bryan Sartin of Verizon Business, a firm that investigates data breaches, told the Post that his group investigated 100 incidents involving 285 million compromised consumer records in 2008. ...