
For hackers looking to steal financial data, malware is usually the weapon of choice. Data breaches caused by malware can be devastating to a chain’s profits, image and customer security.
And they happen all the time.
There were 1,093 recorded data breaches involving more than 36 million customer records in 2016, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, San Diego. And because many data breaches go unreported, there likely were more.