Recently there has been a few high profile cases of companies being hacked.
Often they will given the numbers of customer records that were accessed and whether the leaked information contained personal details, financial details etc.
If these companies were ahead of the hackers, I think it's fair to say the hacks wouldn't have happened in the first place which leads me to my question:
If these companies were behind enough to let the hacks happen in the first place, how do we know that the hackers aren't a lot more advanced then thought, and have for example in each instance taken 10x more information than the companies actually realise?
Just as an example, when I was at uni I knew a lad who worked in an RBS call centre and used to take out print outs of credit card details with full info - even limits and balances. He got nicked for it, but I could easily imagine that even after he had been locked up, people may still have been using details he had sold to them.
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