"Organizations With Poor Privacy Practices 80% More Likely to Suffer Data Breach"

Researchers at Osano found that organizations with inadequate data privacy practices are 80 percent more likely to suffer a data breach than those with the highest-ranked privacy practices. Companies with the lowest privacy scores lost 600% more records than high-scoring companies.  The researchers also found that of the organizations that get breached, governments have the worst privacy scores.  Educational and government websites are 15x more likely to experience a breach than commercial sites.

Help Net Security reports: "Organizations With Poor Privacy Practices 80% More Likely to Suffer Data Breach"