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Because half the time companies can’t be trusted to even admit there’s a leak, let alone the severity of it. Groups that leak are likely to want to inflate the
by FridgeSeal 3y ago
Because half the time companies can’t be trusted to even admit there’s a leak, let alone the severity of it.
Groups that leak are likely to want to inflate the severity of the leak to ensure they get paid.
The larger a leak, the higher the probability there’s sensitive information in there, and the better opportunities/more time attackers had to exfiltrate it.
- SahAssar 3y agoAgreed, but journalists need a better way to communicate. Saying 45GB sounds like a lot of emails to a technical person and nothing to someone who bought a bargain-bin 64GB USB memory stick the other day and filled it with a single HD movie. The info says nothing, it conveys nothing. Even skipping the size and saying it leaked "emails" says more in the headline than the size. A single video recording of an all-hands meeting could fill that size but it could also be emails containing the keys for accessing a large part of DOD.