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40% Of IT Security Pros Say They've Been Told Not To Report A Data Leak

The Register, April 11th, 2023

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More than 40 percent of surveyed IT security professionals say they've been told to keep network breaches under wraps despite laws and common decency requiring disclosure.

That's according to Bitdefender's 2023 Cybersecurity Assessment report, which was published this month. According to responses from large companies in the US, EU, and Britain, half of organizations have experienced a data leak in the past year with America faring the worst: three quarters of respondents from that side of the pond said they experienced an intrusion of some kind.

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