Data breach notifications have become an all-too-regular exercise in crisis communications that increasingly try to deflect blame, obfuscate important details and omit important facts.
The next time you get a data breach notification, read between the lines. For instructions how to do that read How to decode a data breach notice article at https://tcrn.ch/2WMqUjm.
Know the common bullshit lines to avoid:
“We take security and privacy seriously.”
Read: “We clearly don’t.”
“We recently discovered a security incident…”
Read: “Someone else found it but we’re trying to do damage control.”
“An unauthorized individual…”
Read: “We don’t know who’s to blame, but don’t blame us.”
“Our forensic investigation shows…”
Read: “We asked someone to tell us how f**ked we are.”
“A sophisticated cyberattack…”
Read: “We’re trying not to look as stupid as we actually are.”
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Phishing Attack of Wisconsin GOP Leads to Theft of Millions Intended for Trump’s Reelection Campaign
https://www.newsweek.com/phishing-attack-wisconsin-gop-leads-theft-millions-intended-trumps-reelection-campaign-1543272
Andrew Hitt, the RPW chairman said that hackers entered the system in “a sophisticated phishing attack,” in a statement given to Newsweek. “These criminals exhibited a level of familiarity with state party operations at the end of the campaign to commit this crime.”