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Article: The Cold, Hard Costs of Data Exposure
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
(since the question of "how much is my data worth" was asked earlier this week, here's more for the discussion) Courtesy Dissent from pogowasright.org http://www.esj.com/News/article.aspx?EditorialsID=2169 Again and again the stories surface; only the names seem to change. Company X reports a data breach after a laptop is stolen or a server is hacked, exposing Y numbers of customers to potential identity theft. The common response to these incidents includes notifying the affected customers (as required by various state laws) and (usually) offering a year.s free credit monitoring service. What's untold is how much the episode is costing Company X, over and above the humiliation outlay. "Our estimate is that the cost ranges from $25 to $150 per impacted record," said Jon Oltsik, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. More visible, national companies tend to spend more, he noted, as they have to notify people nationwide and stand more risk of losing their customers as a result of the incident. Local firms with minimal competition, such as a community hospital, can mount a less elaborate response, he said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 136 million compromised records in 375 incidents over 6 years.
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