Sometimes, a simple outsourcing contract can turn into a major political scandal for a company. This happened recently after the Swedish Transport Agency signed an IT services contract with the American company IBM. According to the Swedish opposition, the oversight and haste in drafting the contract resulted in a threat to national security, since some of its provisions were in violation of the kingdom's laws. As a result, the American company was given access to classified information - presumably, information about the Swedish Ministry of Defense's transport, driver's license registers and other data that the government would not like to disclose.
Insider attacks are one of the most common threats to a company's cybersecurity. For example, a leak occurred at Home Depot, a major American retailer, where a former employee used his access to computer systems to obtain credit card information from lease transactions for the company's equipment.
data breaches. In July 2017, 400,000 of its customers suffered due to portugal whatsapp data access to personal credit accounts. According to Daniele Tonella, the bank’s CIO, he is not sure who is really to blame for the leak – a third-party software provider or an attacker who accessed the accounts through third parties.
In June 2017, InfoWatch published a report on the study of incidents related to information leaks in Russia in 2016. According to them, the situation with cybersecurity breaches in Russia is rapidly approaching the global level. The company notes that 2/3 of all information leaks in Russia occur due to the fault of those employees who have access to confidential data. Personal data and payment information are the most “popular” types of data, accounting for 80% of Russian leaks. According to an analysis by SearchInform, in 2016, about 47% of Russian companies faced cases of insider attacks.
Italian bank Unicredit has also experienced
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