Plumbers, contractors, data couriers, florists, limousine companies and other small and midsize businesses that rely on driving are adapting to a volatile landscape in different ways — whether through higher prices or creative, long-term fixes.
Nor is the danger secrecy, which, as Posner notes, "is ubiquitous in a range of uncontroversial settings," a promise the government makes to protect "taxpayers, inventors, whistle-blowers, informers, hospital patients, foreign diplomats, entrepreneurs, contractors, data suppliers and many others".
Paller of the SANS Institute estimates that around half of the contractors' data breaches were a result of "spear phishing," a technique in which hackers impersonate a high-level official in an e-mail.
Officials declined to identify the military contractor whose data system was compromised in the March attack.
That occurs even though borrowers are about three times as likely to fall behind on their student loans if they're serviced by the four big loan contractors compared to the department's six smaller contractors, federal data show.
The contractor matched the data to other available information to determine the passengers' Social Security numbers and other information.
For instance, organization's alliance with business partners, contractors and sub-contractors may increase data access demands for analytics.
"That is the preferred term," said Nancy Armistead, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition, a Medicare contractor that collects data and patient grievances.
Also last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned its employees that their confidential financial information, like brokerage transactions, might have been compromised because an agency contractor had granted data access to a subcontractor without the S.E.C.'s authorization.
The Institutional Review Board for Westat, the contractor who handled data collection, approved the study.
The monitors were returned by mail to the NHANES contractor where the data were downloaded, and the monitors were checked for calibration.
