Data breaches and hacked accounts are big problems associated with big companies like Yahoo, Home Depot and Target because those are the cases that get media attention. Small businesses however, are not immune.A 2015 study by the independent research organization Ponemon Institute and IBM found companies with fewer than 10,000 records are more likely to be hacked than those with more than 100,000 records, probably because smaller businesses are viewed as easy marks, with less-sophisticated cyber security technology. A Fortune 500 company has more resources to shore up firewalls than a mom-and-pop shop, and thieves are opportunists if nothing else.Gone
