The re-emergence of the hacktivist movement appears to have thrown a spanner in the works for those in the InfoSec industry charged with data breach trend analysis.
There has been a series of massive data breaches over the last 16 months – each of which compromised more than a million identities.
During the same time, much smaller incidents occurred in which only a handful of records were stolen.
Read more on SC Magazine. The commentary relies heavily on Symantec’s August 2012 Intelligence Report.