There are a number of reasons why more data breaches are discovered and reported by third parties than by enterprises working on their own.
“Over the last several years, organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] have gotten increasingly involved in notifying U.S businesses that they have been identified as being compromised,” Ryan Kazanciyan, technical director at Mandiant, told eWEEK. “The result of the FBI’s efforts has led to increasing numbers of victim notifications.”
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