What’s stopping consumers from acting on a data breach notice?

This article has been indexed from Help Net Security

Only three percent of consumers implemented a credit freeze after receiving a data breach notice, 11 percent enrolled in credit/data monitoring, and only 22 percent changed all of their account passwords, a recent survey by DIG.Works on behalf of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has shown. 48 percent of the respondents only changed the password on the breached account, and 16 percent took no action at all. Those that didn’t act after receiving a … More

The post What’s stopping consumers from acting on a data breach notice? appeared first on Help Net Security.

Read the original article: What’s stopping consumers from acting on a data breach notice?