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Data breaches – a game of Russian roulette, carefully selected targets or exploiting the circumstances?

From a criminal viewpoint, cybercrime has grown into an international and profitable business, one among other business fields. Behind data breaches one can usually find hacker groups supported by authoritarian governments, independent criminal groups or individuals skilled in information technology who have fallen onto the wrong side of the law, whose day jobs involve scanning through corporate web interfaces for gaps the size of a single line of code or malware.