There is an old adage that newspaper editors use as a guideline. That ‘rule of thumb’ is that, if something is happening every day, it is no longer an important news item. In newspaper terms, it is “buried”. The item becomes filler on the back pages.
This is what is happening to data breach / identity theft news items. It used to be that a data breach news item would be carried across the major news services. The story might lead the news of the day. It is not so any more. For example, the University of South Carolina has had a data breach. Over seven thousand people have had their private information compromised. After more than nine hours, this story is being carried on less than twenty online news sources. Previously, such a security breach would be splashed over countless news services.
You might be saying to yourself … “it’s just another data breach story”. That’s the whole point. Data breaches and identity theft are so common now that it no longer surprises us. It is becoming just part of the technological age. And stories of lost computers, hacked main frames, unsecured wi-fi or similar security compromises just become so much ‘white noise’. It is a daily happening. Welcome to the future.
Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
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