Software piracy remains a major risk for data loss in businesses, unveiled the Data Loss Barometer of KPMG.
The report notes that corporate espionage and terrorism were the main motivation for the attacks from hackers.
The figures showed that in many cases the main enemy of the company is in it. The attacks generated within the same company in 2007 accounted for 4%, while for 2010 the figure rose to 20%, affecting over 23 million people worldwide.
The global economic crisis was the main reason why this type of attacks increased, analysts concluded KPMG.
"The recession may have boosted the growth of data loss incidents perpetrated by malicious people to the company as data have become an increasingly more valuable," said Roberto Cabrera, managing partner of market industries and KPMG Mexico.
The Barometer also revealed that the financial services sector continues to be the hardest hit, capturing 33% of the 249 million recorded attacks since 2007.
second site was found in the retail industry with 31%, with credit cards and department store the greatest risk to safety.
KPMG noted that the situation is more alarming is the living the health sector, which suffered a drastic increase in the number of attacks experienced during 2010. The results showed that from 2009 to 2010 doubled the number of incidents from 12 to 25%.
Cabrera said that the outlook for 2011 is not favorable because after the attacks this year will be broader and therefore more expensive.
The executive concluded by stressing that this situation will be because the computer wars will begin to consolidate as a threat, leading the cybercriminals to find new ways to infiltrate in the systems.
The Barometer found that data loss has affected 514 million people since 2007. Netmedia
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