Theft of confidential data increases. - According to a new KPMG report, 110 million people were directly or indirectly affected by “cyber attacks” in the world between January and June 2009. A large portion of this figure relates to a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, where more than 100 million credit/debit card users were affected at the beginning of last year. This incident is at present one of the largest data breaches in US history. According to KPMG, more people, affected by the...