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Over-Compensating Data Breach Victims Can Backfire

Compensation in response to a data breach is most effective when it meets customers’ expectations for what is appropriate, according to a new study by information systems researchers at the University of Arkansas. Such data breaches encompass privacy, information and …

‘Throwing Money’ at Data Breach Victims May Not Be Best Response

Offering customers discounts in future purchases and free credit monitoring —strategies used by Target after its large-scale data breach — may raise suspicions rather than satisfy customers’ sense of justice, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas. Information systems …