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THE RETAIL DATA BREACHES OF 2014
In today’s world information security has been taken as a prominent issue, and cybercrimes has been rising at a higher level even the security experts are tired of the online game. Each valuable time there is always a malware installed underground phishing or stealing customer’s information via credit cards or debit cards. Security experts from various hubs are trying to nub the cyber criminals including the FBI and it has been a battle of today’s dark Usenet. Today data is very sensitive to third party users and must be protected with harsh algorithms this was written by Thomas in security concepts 2014 . Data breach refers to any situation in which a person or a group, steals sensitive or confidential data.
The critical situation that retailers play in the payment card system came into sharp relief the past years with a series of large retailer breaches to fraud of credit cards being used by black hat hackers to transact online. Criminal organizations target not only big co-operations but also smaller business and this month it has been reported that there is underground purchase of point of sale malware at two thousand dollars. As the profitability of cyber criminals has become apparent, hackers have increasingly engineered and executed many devastating data breaches in the global net. Many of the cyber criminals are transnational criminals organizations that hack online, Avoiding being traced due to the obstacles law enforcement may encounter when tracking perpetrators in foreign countries.
These year’s data breach is so sophisticated even to the security geeks, beginning from January,2014, there was report that the eye surgery education councils systems was hacked and user accounts with partial addresses, usernames and clear text passwords were dumped onto the internet,but the security team at Straight