Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data

If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the giant Equifax data breach a year ago of 143 million records. Google, Facebook had recend breaches. Over the last five years alone, major breaches at Anthem, eBay, JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, Yahoo, Target, Adobe …

Each day there must have been another major data breach that keeps criminal hackers gainfully employed by selling your information. Bad guys keep getting smarter, experts say. Why not corporations? The short answer is, because it’s not worth their trouble.

Full article: Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data – Motherboard