IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Market will be growing at a CAGR of 6.7% during the forecast period To 2025

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about a data breaches. The theft and sale of stolen data, including personally identifying information (PII), corporations’ trade secrets, and world governments’ most embarrassing classified information has become both commonplace and lucrative. In fact, data is widely considered more valuable than commodities like oil or gold.

At the same time, an age-old problem has gotten renewed attention over the last few years: countries that do not abide by international intellectual property (IP) or copyright laws.  Right or wrong, one country in particular is consistently accused of impropriety in this area: China.

Along with China, other governments around the world have upped their investment and expertise in data theft, with teams of specialized state actor hackers with adorable-sounding nicknames on their payrolls. Two of the other countries accused? Russia and Iran.

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