The Cyber Threat Risk – Oversight Guidance for CEOs and Board
At the height of the critically important holiday shopping season in 2013, one of North America’s largest merchants suffered a major data breach.
Cyber thieves surreptitiously compromised point-of-sale (POS) systems and stole the payment card data of 40 million customers, along with non-payment personal data of another 70 million customers.
In terms of the amount of sensitive information stolen, this was among the largest known data breaches in history.