A surge in computer hacking has led to the breach of more than six billion records so far this year, topping the total for 2016, security researchers said Tuesday. "It is stunning to see the steady increase in the number of breaches impacting one million or more records," said Inga Goddijn, Executive Vice President for Risk Based Security. The report said hackers are increasingly targeting employment and tax records. Some attacks successfully used "phishing" or spoofing or emails to obtain tax information from US citizens. "As long as information can be quickly monetized and systems remain vulnerable to attack, we should not expect to see any slowdown in breach activity."

Source: dna July 26, 2017 05:02 UTC