Friday, December 09, 2005

Great moments in spin

Estimating breach size by fraud volume

An additional finding is that the likelihood of a fraud being committed using a given piece of revealed PII is inversely proportional to the size of the breach.

These results are being spun as suggesting that large breaches are not so bad, and that the "real risk" of ID theft is low.


Who came up with that spin?

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