The Panama Papers - a new kind of breach? | blog | Control Gap
In the world of data breaches, it’s not often that we see something totally new. This last week we may just have had such a thing. Most people are familiar with easily monetized breaches such as those involving credit cards and tax information. Occasional breaches of health information and privacy are also familiar. Rarer are the some of the large breaches like the politically motivated attack linked to North Korea on Sony Pictures, the Ashley Madison shutdown extortion, and the US Intelligence disclosures by Snowden and others. Even rarer are nation state attacks like StuxNet. But the Panama Papers seem different. Breaches of Law firms aren’t unknown but they also aren’t that notable.
