Information Theft is Changing

Competitors want to learn another's models, methods and metrics

 Why? - to take away their competitive edge or beat them to market with innovation

 Who? - specialists in physical, cyber, and insider infiltration

 How? - spying, extortion or bribery of staff, physical theft. 

​As the custodians of data got smarter and better protected, this became harder, riskier and therefor less lucrative, only the best adapted and continued.

Reputation damage, profit damage, productivity damage

 Why? - sometimes stealing your ideas wasn't enough, you just had to suffer

 Who? - takes a special breed to just want to hurt someone, even for money

 How? - (D)DoS, data corruption, ransomware

Sometimes people oppose your methods, your affiliations, or your success, some of them act on those feelings

Scammers needing more of your personal information

 Why? - more personalised information makes their scams more convincing

 Who? - anyone with the right moral set and the knowhow

 How? - phishing, social farming, stolen data purchase,​

Your personal information has became so valuable, even legitimate businesses wanted to know more about you, to profit more from you.

Extortion

 Why? -because you need your information, and your reputation to operate,

  Who? - anyone! with tools available for purchase on the dark web, literally anyone!

 How? - ransomware, (D)DoS​

Ask yourself, if someone ransomed all of your information and warned you not to report it, and pay$20,000 to them or you wouldn't get it back, what would you do? 

PS, get angry is not the correct answer.​