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Report: Executives likely to be targeted for cybercrime

In addition, human resource departments are six times less likely to be targeted for an attack.

By Dan Clark | May 16, 2019 at 10:12 AM

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Executives of corporations are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals because of their access to data and ability to engage in social engineering, according to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Report published last week.

The report was based on the analysis of 41,686 security incidents in 2018. The report noted 2,013 of those reports were confirmed data breaches. The analysis shows executives were compromised in 20 percent of data breach incidents studied in 2018.

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