This week the article "When Personal Identities Are Stolen, The Bad Guys May Get The Business" caught my eye. In an earlier class, I was asked what was the most devastating data breach. My answer was identity theft due to the difficult task of protecting personal data and the daunting impact that it can have on an individual when identity theft occurs. This article brings to light the connection of personal data with business. Personal data gained from identity theft can be used to hack your place of work. It is not the first thing that one might think of in an identity theft situation, but the connection to your place of business through your personal information could open the doors for a hacker to gain access and knowledge of data that would not be available normally.
Social Networking sites were mentioned in the article as growing trend for identity theft. It is an area that people have become to lax in providing more information than they should to the world about themselves. Hackers are targeted executives of companies through the sites in hopes of gaining that piece of personal information that provides access to business information. My company as well as many others have started enforcing policies around social networking sites and it appears that those policies are going to need to become even more strict in the the information that is shared about a person's place of work.
http://www.darkreading.com/security/privacy/228800807/when-personal-identities-are-stolen-the-bad-guys-may-get-the-business.html
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