Coca Cola Security Breach

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Coca-Cola has admitted to a data breach after an employee stole dozens of laptops over the course of six years. There was no clue about the theft laptops where they went and contained the sensitive data of 74,000 individuals. Physical security attacks will lead to worse issues for any organization than a worm attack. Loss of data, or longer term loss of availability by theft of laptops or any portable medium are all things to consider when implementing physical security. Coca-Cola Security Breach Put Personal Information Of 74,000 Employees at risk. Failure here appears to be processes surrounding disposal of old equipment without doing any encryption causing data to be breached. Also some times, a criminal can act as an employee

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