We are now becoming so used to data breaches that only the most spectacular example receive much attention. Usually they are spectacular because of the sheer volume of data, such as the Yahoo! breach of 2013; but on this occasion the newsworthy feature of the attacks is the sensitivity of the data that was compromised. [...]
According to the Business Continuity Institute's (BCI) inaugural Information Security Report, 15% of organisations "lost sensitive data" in the last 12 months. Indeed the actual figure could be higher, as a further 15% don't know if they did or didn't. Whatever the precise figure, it is broadly in line with a report from IBM in [...]
