Cyberattacks can be time bombs that may tick a while before being triggered
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
Cyberattacks such as that recently suffered by telecoms firm TalkTalk can result in hair-raisingly large losses: TalkTalk may have lost the details of 4m customers, while in just the last few months Carphone Warehouse lost 2m, Experian lost 15m T-Mobile customers' details, and dating website Ashley Madison lost 32m users' details. The impression is that all this data is a danger to us in the wrong hands, but where does it end up, how is it used, and by whom?