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Tech, telecom companies rank high as darknet targets

August 31, 2017

Technology and telecommunications companies are among the companies which are most at risk for hacked data to end up on the web of private networks collectively known as the darknet, according to a recent report put together by Owl Cybersecurity.

Owl has a proprietary database of darknet content that it analyzed to calculate a “darknet footprint” for each of the companies in the Fortune 500 (as of April 2017) and re-ranked them based on the size of that footprint and the recentness of the data associated with ech company. The company published the top 25 in its Darknet Index, which were heavily weighted toward technology and telecom companies.

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