Not long ago, hackers stole about 40 million debit- and credit-card recordsfrom Target, another 56 million records from Home Depot, and nearly 5 million patient records from hospital operator Community Health Systems. And this past June, personal information about millions of federal employees was taken from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. These are just a few thunderclaps in the perfect storm of cyberattacks and data breaches making headlines recently.
Despite massive efforts to guard sensitive data, hackers often manage to steal it anyway. It’s a problem that’s becoming especially acute, now that huge amounts of information are being concentrated on the servers of various cloud service providers. Most times we don’t even know where these machines are located; how can we possibly feel that our data is safe with them? …[Read more]
