Data breach disclosures drop in 2020, report says
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Jaclyn Jaeger2021-04-07T18:44:00
Cyber-breach disclosures in 2020 were down 19 percent from 2019—the first drop in the statistic in five years, according to a new report from Audit Analytics.
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