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Majority of US IT Pros Told to Keep Quiet About Data Breaches

April 13, 2023

While an increasingly number of regulations have made the reporting of data breaches mandatory, a majority of IT professionals in the United States say they have been told to keep quiet about an incident, potentially running afoul of legal requirements.

In a survey released last week, 42% of the more than 400 IT and security professionals surveyed — and 71% of those in the United States — maintain that they have been instructed to keep a data breach confidential when they knew the incident should be reported. Three in 10 of those surveyed have acquiesced and not reported the breach, according to the “2023 Cybersecurity Assessment Report,” published by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender.

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