While Americans seem quite comfortable with the US government 'breaching' their privacy, the surge in private sector cyber-attacks and data hacks in recent months is worrisome to many. As Bloomberg illustrates below [2], so far the efforts have been focused on retail merchants (as opposed to banking) with Home Depot's latest breach yet to be sized but believed to be "massive."
Of course no one trumps the US government in 'breaches' [3]...
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You will find more statistics at Statista [4]
But as Bloomberg shows, the private sector hack is on the rise...
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