Cyber crims put feet up for Chrimbo: 2014's seasonal retail breaches fell

Shoppers flocked online for retail bargains during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2014, but cyber criminals seemingly decided not to join the scrum. Despite a record-breaking surge in online shopping during late November’s online discount binge, cyber breaches actually fell, according to IBM. That’s the good news. The bad? …

[Lewis R]

Too soon to tell

I can't imagine how Big Blue is able to make such a claim so soon. I wouldn't expect us to really know anything for at least several months, if at all (not all companies ethically disclose such breaches, even when they do have evidence).

[Tom 13]

Your headline is self-contradictory

And given events that took place in 2014, does not pass the smell test.

All of the major breaches of 2014 had been ongoing for at least 6 months before disclosure. So it will be July before we can even begin to assert that seasonal breaches fell at the end of 2014.