Organizations today are conscious about their data security more than ever before due to the frequent number of information breach. This paper discusses two such organizations that come across data theft. The preventive measures of such breaches are also detailed out.
The cases
Breach one: the bank of America headquarters, 2011.
Customer information was leaked by an employee to a member of an identity theft ring. The employee obtained information about the customer's name, social security number, bank account numbers, PINs account, address and phone number. A group of people used this information to change the bank account information ...