Dive Summary:

• The Michigan-based Ponemon Institute conducted a study that found 55% of the small businesses who responded had been hit with data breaches, though only 33% of them relayed news of the attacks to customers.
• Bashas’ Family of Stores and Sprouts Farmers Market were recently affected by cyberattacks, and many cases such as these it is the banks, not retailers, who discover where a breach has taken place.
• Better data-security policies and securing customer data through the process known as whitelisting can help to minimize risk associated with cyberattacks.

From the article:

"... Despite the lack of hard data, it’s clear that retailers are increasingly under attack. Hamilton said identity thieves are going after businesses on multiple fronts, trying to steal customer data from their websites, point-of-sale systems and other back-end computing infrastructure. Employee laptops and mobile devices also are being exploited for information. ..."