Secunia Blog Business Impact of a Breach and What You Can Do About It

Were you impacted by the Yahoo data breach? Regardless if you had one of the 500 million Yahoo email accounts, you were impacted if you were a stockholder, as the sales price to Verizon was reduced by an estimated $350 million. Target had a data breach in 2013 where the credit card and contact information of an estimated 110 people was compromised. This breach resulted in the resignation of both the CIO and the CEO, and an estimated cost of $162 million. There have been many data breaches that made the news over the past few years including eBay, Equifax, TJX, JP Morgan Chase, US Office of Personnel Management,…