Report: Consumers believe financial, cloud data most at risk of being hacked

Consumers overwhelmingly perceive that their financial data, information and files stored on cloud servers are the most at risk of being hacked, according to a new survey by technology standards group IEEE.

The survey finds that 72 percent of consumers think online banking data is at risk of a data breach, followed by general banking and mortgage information at 60 percent and cloud information at 53 percent.

Social media, email, and web browsing information were perceived as the least...