Hackers Target Biggest Business Weakness: Employees

While businesses look to build sophisticated technology to defend against cyber crime, hackers are exploiting the weakest link: workers. Mass emails containing phishing links are being sent to health systems, banks, retailers and vendors trying to trick employees into giving up sensitive data. Gaining an employee password can give a hacker the key to mountains of information. Phishing email schemes are blamed for several major data breaches in the recent past, including the massive breach at Target in 2013.. Employee training on how to identify suspicious emails are just as key as building up cyber defenses, experts warn.