Privacy Concerns of Security Breaches

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• The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse maintains a list of U.S. security breaches that involve records that contain personal information
  • began collecting this data in January 2005
  • as of Oct. 2019, reported that over 10 billion records have been involved in security breaches
  • list is available at https://privacyrights.org/data-breaches

A security breach is a compromise of any security system that results in the loss of PII.

• Every U.S. state has a breach notification law that requires organizations to notify customers in the event of a breach

Security breach fatigue is the idea that consumers receive too many data breach notifications and no longer take action to protect themselves when they receive a breach notification.