Every piece of personal data about you has inherent value. As long as there are customers clamoring for that data, breaches are likely to continue.
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The global trade in data means minor drug dealing by 16-year-olds on social media could hurt their ability to get a job, house or insurance in their 30s.
A data breach has affected the digital prescription company MediSecure. While investigations continue, cyber criminals will likely use this event for new scam campaigns.
The hacker who steals your data is just one part of an illicit supply chain featuring producers, wholesalers, distributors and consumers – a black-market industry worth millions of dollars.
Cloud services are convenient, but if an organization isn’t careful about how it uses them, the services can also give data thieves an opening.
If an organization that has your data gets hacked, your vulnerability depends on the kind of attack and the kind of data. Here’s how you can assess your risk and what to do to protect yourself.
Top contributors
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Professor of Policy and Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor in Drug Policy and Health Law, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute / enAble Institute, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Public Health, SHORE & Whāriki Research Centre, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Information Systems, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor in Cybercrime, University of South Florida
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PhD Candidate in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University