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Data breaches caused mostly by negligence and glitches, study finds |
June 08, 2013
While data breaches born of malicious attacks grab headlines, more data thefts are caused by employee negligence and computer glitches, according to a report this week by Symantec and the Ponemon Institute.
Almost two-thirds of data breaches in 2012 could be attributed to negligence or human error (35 percent) and system glitches (29 percent), reported the eighth annual Ponemon Global Cost of a Data Breach study.
However, malicious attacks remain the single highest cause of breaches, with 37 percent of the intrusion pie.
Those figures vary by nation, the report showed. For example, Germany had an almost even split between malicious attacks (48 percent) and negligence/glitches (52 percent). By comparison, more than three-quarters of the breaches (77 percent) in Brazil were blamed on human error-system failures.
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