Before the rise in popularity of online shopping, the greatest retail cyber threats were focused on brick-and-mortar stores — particularly, breaches of point-of-sale (POS) systems to pilfer shoppers’ credit card information.
This is exactly what happened to Target, which discovered in late 2013 that it had fallen victim to a breach that compromised more than 100 million credit and debit cards.
While attacks on major retailers, financial institutions, and large enterprises get a lot of attention, they’re not the only targets — and it’s not just brick-and-mortar POS’s being targeted. The payday for criminals stealing information from ecommerce sites is on the rise, putting even mid-sized online stores at risk.
