Breaches Down, Insider Attacks Up, Verizon Business/Secret Service Study Says

PCI compliance, saturation of black market may have driven decline, investigators say

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The number of records compromised in major data breaches dropped sharply last year, according to a new study being issued today. But the causes of those breaches changed dramatically, shifting strongly toward insider attacks.

Those are just two of the conclusions revealed in the

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