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Re:AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' c... by jkaptur on Friday July 12, 2024 @12:14PM (#40946912)
My hypothesis would be that companies with poor operational practices are more likely to underperform the index and have data breaches - in other words, that the study confuses cause and effect.

This wouldn't be that hard to test. I suspect that the breached companies underperformed in the six months before the breach as well as the six months after.

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Re:AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' c... by Terr_ on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:09PM (#40947972)
Also, events which are not "just" data-leaks but also interruptions or degradation in regular operations. I suspect investors may be more sensitive to those events and their fallout, and such events more likely to either be caused by bad-practice or to be somehow connected to data-leaks.
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