You've read the headlines: Millions of Social Security numbers have been leaked in a massive data breach. Once again, your personal data is vulnerable.

And that isn't the only sensitive information that was compromised in the breach of National Public Data, a Florida-based credit and criminal background check company, which included individual names and addresses.

As cybercriminals enhance how they discover and exploit weak spots in our digital infrastructure, even purportedly secure systems are at risk. At the same time, as cyberattacks become increasingly commonplace in the daily news cycle, these repeat headlines may prompt either complacency, fatalism or both.

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“Many small businesses accept the status quo that they can potentially be attacked, but they focus more on the profit margin versus investing in their cybersecurity," said Kyle Aquino, former U.S. naval officer and CEO of NVIS AI. "They don’t realize that this places a glass ceiling on how large their business can grow . . . let alone exposing themselves to irrecoverable damage to their reputations and bank accounts when attacked. If they conduct business with larger enterprises, they also become an easy and ideal attack vector.”

Malicious actors can use your Social Security number (SSN) to steal your identity, drain your bank account and ruin your credit.

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