Verizon: Errors Like Email Fails Cause 30% Of Data Breaches

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Once again, studies show that humans are the weakest link in any security system.

The single biggest cause of data breaches in 2014 was "miscellaneous errors," like a staffer emailing sensitive information to the wrong email address, according to Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report released Tuesday. Those "errors" accounted for 29.4 percent of data breaches in 2014, up from 25 percent in 2013, Verizon said.
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The article is a little ambiguous as to whether phishing emails are included in the 30%. From my experience if it were included the number would be more like 80%.
 
25% using such a broad category doesn't sound like a lot to me, and also its all about scale of the 'breach'.
Wonder how much % is criminal behavior of the employees (selling info and such)
 
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