Unfortunately, data breaches have become the norm in the digital age, so why aren't we better prepared?
Former NSA Hacker Reveals 5 Ways to Protect Yourself Online
According to a Risk Based Security report, there were 3,932 publicly reported breaches between 2019 and 2020. The latest company to suffer a data breach was T-Mobile this week. It’s not the first data breach, and it certainly won’t be the last. That’s why experts say businesses need to be better equipped to handle the next big hack.
“Ongoing data breaches raise the question of who is responsible for protecting businesses and consumers from cybercrime,” Coalition CEO Joshua Motta wrote in an email to Lifewire. “The breach is not the point of failure, but the response. And to prevent cyberattacks, organizations can’t continue to think in terms of if they will happen, but when.”
The stolen T-Mobile data included the names, dates of birth, driver's license information and even Social Security numbers of approximately 7.8 million current postpaid customers, as well as more than 40 million past or future customers who had applied for credit.
