A World With No Data Breaches Is It Even Possible
                     A WORLD WITH NO DATA BREACHES: IS IT
EVEN POSSIBLE?
https://www.anonybit.io/blog/a_world_with_no_data_breaches
On  July  6,  Marriott,  the  multinational  hotel  franchise,  announced a  second
staggering data  breach since just the beginning of this year. This incident can
be  traced   back   to  J une,  when  a  Marriott  employee fell  victim  to  a  social
engineering scheme posed by an unnamed group of hackers. With this
misstep,   the group quickly gained access  to  the employee’s computer,
opening  the  gates for them  to steal  roughly  20 GB  of personal  data––some
of which  included  credit  card  information, confidential business documents,
and customer payment information.
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MARRIOTT IS NOT ALONE AND
SHOULD NOT BE SINGLED OUT.
While  the  scale of  these cyberattacks  certainly
varies, this   narrative is one that we’ve heard
many  times  before:  corporations  are  tapped for
access to sensitive information, compromising
their  operations,  reputation,  and  in some cases,
longevity. Hackers capitalize     on this stolen
information, impersonating individuals,
breaching  accounts, and  selling  this  personally
identifiable  information  (PII)  on  the  Dark  World
Web to underpin    a $16.1 trillion economy.
Endless amounts of information exists there––
from personal to financial to online account login
data––and the Dark Web is the perfect
environment to transact  this information.
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In referencing the PrivacyAffair’s Dark Web Price
Index, leaked information collected from 
various data  breaches  can  be  found  for sale  at  ba
rpgraicines. For example, a duplicated credit card
may  be  available  for just $20;  a PayPal  account
could  cost    $150   depending on the available
credit; and a Gmail account, just $65. On the Dark
W eb, hackers  have  the  ability  to piece  
tog ether bits  of  data  scavenged from  different  
binreoarcdheers to craft mature   profiles. From here,
these cybercriminals  have  an  easier  time  taking
over even  more personal accounts.
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