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While crime fighters are buzzing about malware (define), SQL injections (define), phishing(define) and other similarly fascinating acts by cybercriminals, the really bad guys are within the corporate firewalls. A study conducted in late 2007 by ID Analytics, which offers identity intelligence on demand, found that from three to 36 percent of identities stolen by internal data thieves were misused. "Compared to that, only 0.01 to 0.5 percent of identities stolen in external data breaches was misused," Cooper Bachman, an ID Analytics product analyst, told InternetNews.com. This is because an external breach is more obvious to a company than one employee quietly stealing information on the inside. When identities are stolen from the outside, the identity is then sold on underground sites that trade in identities, credit cards and such, and that takes time, perhaps enough time for the information to be protected from misuse. Internal thieves tend to use the information themselves and act very quickly after making their heist. The study examined more than a dozen incidents of internal data theft involving more than five million identities from consumer and employee files across organizations in the government, education and commercial sectors. RELATED ARTICLES Sabotage the Charge in S.F. Net Admin Case San Francisco Hack: Where Was the Oversight? CA Extends Its Role in GRC Apps For more stories on this topic: Eight... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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