Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has provided a wealth of information regarding data privacy.  This includes a database that displays the protection status of various types of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in each state.  Types of PII can include paper records, biometric information, medical information, passports, deidentified information, and encrypted information.  Their website also contains a resource known as their ‘Data Breach Chronology’.  This presents information that can be filtered either by state or category.  A researcher could use this source to find how many breaches have occurred in each state, how many were reported by each organization type, and even how many records have been impacted within certain organizations.  Examining the trends shown in these details can help cybersecurity researchers improve their response processes to security incidents, in addition to helping them gain an understanding of how a similar attack could impact their organization.  As a result, this enhanced understanding of data breaches can help researchers understand which threats currently present a higher risk, so that their organization can attempt to prevent the attack from occurring.