Cybernews reported on September 23 that background check company MC2 Data suffered a major data breach, exposing 2.2 terabytes of sensitive information. This breach potentially affects about 100 million Americans, raising serious concerns among cybersecurity experts about the risks faced by consumers today.
Why This Breach Matters
This data is considered very sensitive, thought to include passwords, along with identifying details in the form of email addresses. According to Gary Orenstein, Chief Customer Officer at Bitwarden, such information makes it possible for attackers to home in on the high-value targets. With all this, the attackers now have access to current email addresses with other sensitive information and can carry targeted phishing attacks or credential-stuffing attacks on a lot of accounts in the hope of accessing additional ones.
According to Orenstein, one of the scariest things is that hackers may use this data cross-referenced by passwords or slight modifications across many platforms. This may go ahead to help them gain access to several accounts if users have reused or slightly modified the same passwords.
A Growing Threat in Cybersecurity
Take the instance of the MC2 incident; it sharply reminds us that larger trends are existing within cyber threats: data breaches and cyberattacks are on the surge in all sectors. According to Efrat Tabibi, Head of Data at Guardio, “ass
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