Ozzie Fonseca writes:
Data breach notification letters serve multiple purposes. They ensure a breached company is compliant with data breach notification laws, they alert consumers to the breach and their involvement in it, they can warn customers of potential identity theft risks and educate them on how to cope with those risks. The one thing no company wants its notification letter to do, however, is make the recipients any more upset than they already are.
Yet that’s the reaction many consumers reported upon having received data breach notification letters, according to the study “The Aftermath of a Mega Data Breach: Consumer Sentiment.” Conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Experian Data Breach Resolution, the study provides some eye-opening insights into how consumers feel and what they do after receiving a breach notification letter.
Read more on Experian.