I think we can see a well known pattern here since the criminals used data collected elsewhere to assume the identities of taxpayers.

I’m concerned when thieves start the chain by initially stealing sensitive data from potentially less protected systems.

I think that we should demand that all organizations that handle “Social Security details” start to use modern technologies to secure sensitive data.

I found great advice in a Gartner report, covering enterprise and cloud, analyzed solutions for Data Protection and Data Access Governance and the title of the report is "Market Guide for Data–Centric Audit and Protection.”

The report concluded that "Organizations that have not developed data-centric security policies to coordinate management processes and security controls across data silos need to act."

Ulf Mattsson, CTO Protegrity