Understanding the Ripple Effect: Large Enterprise Data Breaches Threaten Everyone

By Tara Seals for Threatpost
Friday, November 8, 2019

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Amidst all of this, the sheer number of employee logins at Fortune 500 companies available on the Dark Web for is staggering: 21 million to be exact, many in plaintext form, according to a recent report by ImmuniWeb. And according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), almost a third of the network compromises tracked overall involve the use of stolen credentials.

Large Enterprises, Large Impacts

For attacked companies, costs stemming from a data breach are myriad; there’s the loss of intellectual property, direct financial theft, fines and penalties for the loss of regulated or financial data, loss of system availability and productivity, and of course brand impact, which increases as organizations get larger and more prestigious. Read Full Article