As our lead story screams, you don’t have to be a cybersecurity professional to realize data breaches are as common in today’s landscape as trees in a forest. But when is a breach, not a breach? When a cachet of previously breached data is sitting in storage as a collection of an astounding 26 billion records and is then leaked.
This massive data leak has been dubbed the Mother of all Breaches (MOAB). While the hyperbole may be a bit excessive, the records that were compromised are no laughing matter. The original owner of this treasure trove of information is unknown, however, data breach search engine Leak-Lockup admitted being the data storehouse breached.
Cybersecurity experts weigh in to help us understand the magnitude of this data incursion and what it truly means for the organizations that were compromised. Some feel it may verge on catastrophic while others consider it nothing more than a wakeup call organizations need to heed.
Steve Lasky, Editorial Director for SecurityInfoWatch.com