Is #cybercrime finally getting up close and personal?

It's the sort of incident that regularly hits the news, where personal data gets stolen. But this one is a little different. 

SC staff hit by contactless card theft

SC Magazine reported that one of their own staff members suffered theft from an apparently random encounter on the London tube, after someone bumped in to them. The theft involved a contactless card payment - something that is soaring in popularity, not least due to the ease of using it on the tube itself. 

However, it might just be the most personal way yet that cyber crime affects consumers - through physical contact. The biggest challenge with infosecurity is certainly users (through their fault or not), and often most incidents can be reduced or eliminated through improved education - phishing being a typical example. But despite continual data loss by small, medium and large companies, the public seems stubbornly resistant to many changes. Indeed, only this morning the TalkTalk news highlighted their third recent data loss, and Sony's breach continues to cause impact. So the incidents keep occurring - and yet how many people have changed their behaviour? Improved password security? Removed their business from guilty companies? 

This latest tactic certainly requires the 'hacker' to get up close and personal, and that may just be a trigger in affecting the next step in changing user behaviour. If nothing else, it might cause an interesting effect on crowded rush hour carriages on the tube....