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Re: Tracking consequences of data loss
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:47:05 -0400
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:53:19PM -0500, Al Mac wrote: | Many organizations have sustained healthy fines from the FTC in the | aftermath of breach investigations that found the places that got breached | were negligent in some way. I have seen fines in the $ millions. Where many is 15 out 400? Or is my mental list short of fines? | At least one place has had to declare bankrupsy and go out of business, as | a result of the loss of confidence in them that came about due to the | circumstances of the breach, where their business was entirely dependent | upon the major credit card brands trusting them or approving their security | arrangements. Cardsystems managed to sell their assets to Paybytouch. Adam _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 136 million compromised records in 416 incidents over 6 years.
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