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April 23, 2014

Payment system attacks trail other cybercrimes

By BREE FOWLER
AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK — While Target's massive data breach last year caused consumers to panic and drew attention to Internet crime, a new study finds that breaches on retailer payment systems are less common than other kinds of attacks.

More than twice as many of last year's Internet data breaches resulted from various small online acts, such people clicking on malicious Web links and choosing easy-to-guess passwords, according to a worldwide report from Verizon.


 
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