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ppWSJ via MSN How do consumers respond when their online accounts are exposed to hackers Many of them simply dont Data breaches at major firms have become all too common with more than 110 million user accounts exposed in just the second quarter of 2023 Yet our research found that nearly twothirds of US consumers would return to a site after they were notified of a breachwith only the bare minimum of precautions like changing their passwords Almost a quarter of the roughly 200 people we surveyed said they would return to the compromised website with no changes to their behavior at all Only 10 said they wouldnt go back Even people who had cybersecurity training within the past 90 daysin other words people who should be primed to protect themselvestook risks In this subsequent study over a quarter of roughly 500 people said they would return to the breached website while taking the absolute minimum security measures and only about 9 would take morecomplicated steps such as setting up twofactor authentication And they would do that only if they experienced real financial consequences like fraudulent charges on their credit cards Why wouldnt people protect themselves Many of the consumers we surveyed believed that there were fewif anyalternatives to the websites they used frequently and all websites seemed to be affected by data breaches Why bother beefing up security Likewise some people said they would stick with a compromised site because they had put so much time and effort into their presence on ita classic sunkcost fallacyppSorry comments are closed for this postppResearch updates provided daily since 2002 with an emphasis on primary sourcesppAmerican Bar Associationpp
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ppWSJ via MSN How do consumers respond when their online accounts are exposed to hackers Many of them simply dont Data breaches at major firms have become all too common with more than 110 million user accounts exposed in just the second quarter of 2023 Yet our research found that nearly twothirds of US consumers would return to a site after they were notified of a breachwith only the bare minimum of precautions like changing their passwords Almost a quarter of the roughly 200 people we surveyed said they would return to the compromised website with no changes to their behavior at all Only 10 said they wouldnt go back Even people who had cybersecurity training within the past 90 daysin other words people who should be primed to protect themselvestook risks In this subsequent study over a quarter of roughly 500 people said they would return to the breached website while taking the absolute minimum security measures and only about 9 would take morecomplicated steps such as setting up twofactor authentication And they would do that only if they experienced real financial consequences like fraudulent charges on their credit cards Why wouldnt people protect themselves Many of the consumers we surveyed believed that there were fewif anyalternatives to the websites they used frequently and all websites seemed to be affected by data breaches Why bother beefing up security Likewise some people said they would stick with a compromised site because they had put so much time and effort into their presence on ita classic sunkcost fallacyppSorry comments are closed for this postppResearch updates provided daily since 2002 with an emphasis on primary sourcesppAmerican Bar Associationpp
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2016 2017 and 2018
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