Tag archive for ‘data breach research’
How Laptop Theft is Eating at your Customer Base
One stolen laptop. Unlimited data up for grabs. But what should you really be concerned about?
Well, if you’re a business owner, take a look at your customers. A recent study by the Ponemon Institute indicates that after a data breach, almost one-third of the customers notified terminate their relationship with the company.
In Sue Poremba’s article [...]
Government agency just now notifies 380,000 that their information was on a laptop computer stolen one year ago
We’ve reported on the prevalence of laptop theft in many ways. The crime is rampant, frequently places consumers’ valuable data records in harm’s way, and costs billions. And now we can top off all this with the fact that many organizations seem to take forever to notify those whose data records are on stolen machines [...]
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