Thursday, 2 June 2016

All about your 'fullz' and how hackers turn your personal data into dollars

If cyber criminals have a Holy Grail, it’s your fullz, or your full set of personal information. And they’ll go to great lengths to get it.

Since 2005, more than 6,000 companies and organizations have reported breaches. Judging from prior trends, about half of those breaches likely involved the exposure of sensitive information, where consumers’ names are paired with additional data such as addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and health records. In just 2015, for example, nearly 165 million records containing Social Security numbers were compromised in 338 breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

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