Security News > 2020 > May > Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

Outside hackers were to blame for most data thefts last year, while in-house drama contributed to only a fifth of total computer security incidents, Verizon reckons.

In its 13th Data Breach Investigations Report, which probed some 4,000 intrusions and network breaches in 2019, Verizon found that the online world is still a fairly bad place if you're not tooled up enough to defend yourself and your customers from external miscreants hoping to make bank.

"86 per cent of the breaches were financially motivated, up from 71 per cent last year."

The report revealed attacks involving malware infections dropped from almost half of all security breaches in 2016 to a "Historical low" today, with criminals preferring phishing and siphoning off credentials, instead. Well, mostly.

Lots of industry hype around insider threat as an attack vector may have been wide of the mark, too: 81 per cent of network breaches, said Schlager, were caused by external vectors, though healthcare was a notable exception.

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