Cyber Attack on RSA Cost EMC $66 million
The Washington Post reports EMC disclosed that it spent $66 million in its second quarter to deal with a cyber attack that compromised its RSA Security division. EMC spent the $66 million on transaction monitoring for its corporate customers who worried that their RSA security tokens – long considered the gold-standard for protecting sensitive data – had been compromised in the attack. EMC also offered replacements to any company that requested them.
