Just One Cotton Picking Moment

Cotton Traders revealed that their website had been hacked and details of 38,000 transactions had been stolen. They have now worked with experts to fix the problem. OK, so this is ‘yet another’ case of data loss - however, for me I find it interesting that the size of the target organization is relatively small and yet it is obviously still worth the criminals attacking it. Is this because smaller organizations do not necessarily have the security expertise to secure their environments, or because their website was unpatched and therefore open to a well known attack? We don’t know, all we know was that they were attacked and they have now fixed the problem.

Smaller companies seem to think that they will not be a target for an attack… “It won’t happen to me, I’m too small to be on the radar” - this just goes to prove that this is not the case. Hopefully other smaller companies will now sit up and take notice of the potential threats and associated consequences and look how they can prevent it from happening to them.

June 13, 2008 | Filed Under data-loss, security 

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