According to a 2023 survey of small business leaders and IT professionals in the United States, half of the respondents stated that they did not notify their customers of the data breach incident because law enforcement advised them to wait until an investigation was complete. Additionally, 38 percent of respondents said they refrained from alerting their customers mainly because no customer or employee personal information was compromised during the data breach.
Reasons small companies in the United States did not notify customers impacted by data breach as of September 2023
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Identity Theft Resource Center. (October 24, 2023). Reasons small companies in the United States did not notify customers impacted by data breach as of September 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1455351/reasons-us-companies-did-not-notify-customers/
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