Data leaks on the dark web: Many companies do not react
Kaspersky experts last year notified 258 companies worldwide that their databases or compromised accounts were being offered for sale on the dark web. Almost a third did not respond to the notices. A quarter of these companies came from Europe, 14 of them even from the DACH region. The problem with this: 28 percent of the affected companies worldwide reacted with indifference or denial. As part of an initiative by the Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence team, affected companies received an immediate notification when a cybersecurity incident related to compromised company data was detected on the dark web, such as database sales, infrastructure compromises or ransomware....