28 December 2016 14:19:02 IST

The carrot and stick on data breaches

A staggering 93 per cent of data breaches could have been prevented

There have been numerous data breaches of late. After Yahoo! announced that over a billion of its accounts were breached, allegations of Russia breaking into USA’s cyber security surfaced. But turns out 93 per cent of data breaches could have been prevented.

Then why do they continue to happen? According to this article in Tech Crunch , one of the reasons is that companies don’t care enough about a customer’s privacy. So, think twice before you store your passwords in one app or leave your details unprotected.