Kid’s electronic toy company VTech is now at the centre of a storm over a breach of its user database, which worryingly included the details of 3 million child profiles.
In the wake of the Talk Talk hack we heard all kinds of speculation about the motives of these attackers, the methods they might have used and their ultimate goals.
The humble password gets a hard time these days. It seems to be responsible for every hack, data breach or act of cyber espionage that we see reported.
This week former Morgan Stanley financial advisor Galen Marsh admitted stealing data from the banking giant. He downloaded a total of 730,000 records to his personal computer from 2011 - 2014.
For the information security professional a data breach is the worst case scenario but must also be considered an occupational hazard.
