One of the most clueful and well-informed reports on how hackers are stealing company data these days was published this week by Verizon, which examined more than 500 data breaches that they investigated over the past few years. In a nutshell, Verizon found that when it comes to security, companies are too trusting of their core business partners, far too complacent with their own internal security, and too willing to violate their own security policies. Graphic: Verizon Business While those high-level conclusions may seem obvious, some of the numbers behind those findings bear highlighting. For example, Verizon found that in nearly half of the attacks, it took the bad guys between hours and days to reach the data they were after. In addition, Verizon found that 63 percent of the victims didn’t realize they’d been hacked until months after the compromise. Peter Tippett, vice president of risk intelligence for Verizon