Before your company finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit over a data breach that spills personal information about your customers all over the Internet, you might want to take a look at some recent research by Carnegie Mellon and Temple Universities. Data breach victims are six times less likely to file litigation against a company if they receive free credit monitoring following a breach, according to analysis of 230 federal breach lawsuits from 2000 to 2010. That finding surprised one of the researchers working on the study.
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Data Breach? Try Rubbing Some Free Credit Services on It
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 5, 2012 06:00 AMBefore your company finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit over a data breach that spills personal information about your customers all over the Internet, you might want to take a look at some recent research by Carnegie Mellon and Temple Universities. Data breach victims are six times less likely to file litigation against a company if they receive free credit monitoring following a breach, according to analysis of 230 federal breach lawsuits from 2000 to 2010. That finding surprised one of the researchers working on the study.