Online data breaches are on the rise

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Personal Liberty News Desk 

According to the FBI, the U.S. is experiencing a rapid spike in the number of major data breaches as hackers around the world develop increasingly sophisticated skill sets.
FBI’s Cyber Division director James Trainor told a crowd gathered at a Microsoft event that the agency learns of a new massive data breach every two to three days.
“Those types of events, whether they concern a national security threat actor or a criminal actor, are ones we see on a much more regular basis,” Trainor said, according to The Hill.
According to the official, FBI Director James Comey has named U.S. cybersecurity a “top priority” and said the agency is working to build relationships with major U.S. firms that have suffered, or are at risk of suffering, data breaches.
Trainor said the agency is careful to treat breached companies “like a victim, not like they did something wrong.”
Of the massive data breach at Sony last year, Trainor said, “There were a lot of lessons learned from that in a very, very positive way.”
According to a new report out from Juniper Research, data breaches will cost the global economy $2.1 trillion by 2019.
The report cites an “increasing professionalism of cybercrime” as a driving factor.