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Stumbled on a stat that I triple-checked - 90% of data breaches come from phishing emails
I was digging through a 2023 Verizon DBIR report for a client presentation and that number jumped out at me. Has anyone else seen that figure hold true in their own repair or IT work?
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matthew3711d ago
Had a buddy who runs a small managed IT shop, he called me totally freaked out last month. One of his clients (a local dental office with like 30 employees) got hit because the receptionist clicked a fake "Adobe sign" link in her personal Gmail on her work laptop. Within 15 minutes the whole network was locked down, patient records encrypted, the works. He told me the whole thing started with a single phishing email that looked totally legit, even had the dentist's real signature block copied from a past email. Cost them something like 12 grand to clean up and restore from backups, and the receptionist still feels awful about it.
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rodriguez.mia1d ago
Ugh that's brutal. 12 grand is a lot for a small office.
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