Has your Small Business Experienced a Data Theft Cyber Attack?

Cyber Attacks on Small Businesses Increase

By Aleshia Altizer

Big business data breaches have been in the headlines a lot recently, overshadowing the fact that a growing number of small businesses are also experiencing data theft.

According to an article from the Wall Street Journal, in 2010, the U.S. Secret Service and Verizon Communications Inc.’s forensic analysis unit responded to 761 data breaches and of those, 63% were from companies with 100 employees or fewer. This is way up from 141 data breaches in 2009 with 27% of those attacks being on small businesses.

Small businesses have become prime targets because they lack the security of big businesses. Weak passwords, malicious programs sent as attachments or links in emails to employees are some of the ways hackers can get into small business systems and steal data.

So many businesses, both large and small, store and send personal data and hackers are ever on the lookout for ways steal this information.

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