Breach Notification
Federal breach notice: A view worth the climb?
Posted on Oct 16 2012 by gredmon
Working for a company that navigates 46 different state breach notice laws and a plethora of sector based federal breach notice laws, I’m often asked what I think the likelihood is that the Federal Government will pass a comprehensive data breach notification law that supersedes all the state laws.
Connecticut gets serious about breach reporting
Posted on Oct 02 2012 by ofonseca
Get ready, Connecticut. A new data breach law is now in effect that brings the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) into the reporting loop. The new law requires notifying the OAG by email no later than when affected consumers are notified. Previously, businesses were only required to report a breach to consumers. Yet Attorney [...]
Infographic: Our clients speak out
Posted on Sep 11 2012 by mbruemmer
Experian Data Breach Resolution surveyed a sample of clients to find out who they are and what they think of our services. Tweet
U.S. beats Germany, U.K. and France when it comes to data breach notification costs, but why?
Posted on Aug 28 2012 by mbruemmer
The U.S. tops Germany, the U.K. and France when it comes to data breach notification costs. In other words, it costs American companies more to notify people of a data breach when their personal information is lost or stolen. The Ponemon Institute, which recently conducted a global data breach study, found that it cost U.S. [...]
Vigilance is still the best medicine for avoiding medical identity theft
Posted on Jun 26 2012 by mbruemmer
The latest Ponemon Institute Medical Identity Theft survey reflects the classic good news, bad news scenario. The good news is that more consumers understand how medical identity theft happens, and the importance of checking healthcare invoices and records for accuracy. The bad news is that the victim count has hit an all-time high (nearly [...]
Three reasons your breach notices are flawed
Posted on Jun 05 2012 by ofonseca
Still using the less-is-more approach to notification letters? As it turns out, consumers want more – much more than they’re getting. In a new study, 72% of consumers who recall receiving a notification letter express disappointment. The Ponemon Institute explores why in the 2012 Consumer Study on Data Breach Notification. Among all survey respondents, those [...]
Case closed: 8 Things you didn’t know about data breach litigation
Posted on May 22 2012 by ofonseca
As data breaches have exploded in frequency and scale, it’s no surprise that corresponding lawsuits have also flourished. Do these lawsuits have a common pattern? A recent draft research paper, Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation, takes a look at federal data breach lawsuits to assess the common characteristics. The findings were illuminating: The odds [...]
The data breach reporting landscape – part 1
Posted on Feb 28 2012 by kbarney
Our guest blogger this week is Karen Barney of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). As an organization specializing in monitoring and tracking data breaches, the ITRC has come across varying degrees of breaches and reasons for notification due to the varying types of compromised information. We would like to take this opportunity to address [...]
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