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Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/29\/silence-gets-you-nowhere-in-a-data-breach\/<\/a><\/br>
\nSilence gets you nowhere in a data breach<\/br>
\n2023-03-29 22:12:14<\/br><\/p>\n

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Your victim status won\u2019t last long if your response is nonexistent<\/h2>\n
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In cybersecurity, the<\/span> phrase \u201cwhat they don\u2019t know won\u2019t hurt them\u201d is not only wrong, it\u2019s dangerous. Despite this, it\u2019s a motto that remains in many organizations\u2019 PR playbooks, as demonstrated by the recent LastPass<\/a> and Fortra data breaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LastPass has refused to answer any of TechCrunch+\u2019s questions since it confirmed in December that hackers had exfiltrated customers\u2019 encrypted password vaults a month earlier. Fortra is not only declining to answer our questions but also concealed details of a recent security breach \u2014 potentially affecting upwards of 130 of its corporate customers \u2014 behind a paywall on its website.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch+ has learned that LastPass has already lost customers because of its silent-treatment approach to its breach. And Fortra is likely to face a similar fate after TechCrunch+ heard from multiple customers that they only learned that their data had been stolen after receiving a ransom demand; Fortra had assured them that the data was safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smaller companies, too, are employing a silent-treatment approach to data breaches: Kids\u2019 tech coding camp iD Tech failed to acknowledge a January breach<\/a> that saw hackers access the personal data of close to 1 million users, including names, dates of birth, passwords stored in plaintext, and about 415,000 unique email addresses. Concerned parents told us at the time that they only became aware of the breach after receiving a notification from a third-party data breach notification service.<\/p>\n

Cyberattacks are now a fact of doing business: Almost half<\/a> of U.S. organizations suffered a cyberattack in 2022, and attackers are increasingly<\/a> targeting smaller businesses due to the fact they are seen as easier targets than large companies.\u00a0This means that your startup is likely to get compromised at some point.<\/p>\n

Transparency is key<\/h2>\n

While getting hacked can be forgivable, an organization\u2019s victim status will not last long if it fails to respond appropriately or at all \u2014 as demonstrated by LastPass and Fortra.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Despite this, it\u2019s a motto that remains in many organizations\u2019 PR playbooks, as demonstrated by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-tech","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"\nSilence gets you nowhere in a data breach - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2023\/03\/29\/silence-gets-you-nowhere-in-a-data-breach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Silence gets you nowhere in a data breach - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/29\/silence-gets-you-nowhere-in-a-data-breach\/ Silence gets you nowhere in a data breach 2023-03-29 22:12:14 Your victim status won\u2019t last long if your response is nonexistent In cybersecurity, the phrase \u201cwhat they don\u2019t know won\u2019t hurt them\u201d is not only wrong, it\u2019s dangerous. 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