From: c/net
A recent attack against Morgan Stanley that exposed hundreds of thousands of customer accounts was an inside job, a threat experts say is nearly impossible to stop.
Companies spend billions of dollars each year to protect from determined hackers attacking from across the Internet, but experts warn they shouldn’t ignore a closer threat they aren’t even ready for: Inside jobs.
Morgan Stanley, one of the world’s largest financial services firms, revealed Monday its customer information was breached. But it wasn’t the result of determined hackers or sophisticated email attacks. Instead, Morgan Stanley said it was an employee who stole data from more than 350,000 customer accounts.
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