Visit PrivacyRights.org to see the types of publicly available information about data breaches. How might researchers use this information to study breaches? Enter a paragraph in your journal.
The site shows information regarding data breaches across the United States, we well as the kind of breaches, the state where they happened, the companies with the most breaches, and other relevant information. A research could utilize this to investigate which companies have the most breaches, then analyze their cybersecurity systems, as well as the attacks they faced to see where they and other companies can potentially improve. As far as the states where they happened, the number for California is massive, but that can be attributed to California having the most tech based companies in the United States. While this would explain the high number, it also shows that California needs to step up their cybersecurity requirements at a state level for all companies based there; that high concentration of companies with a high number of breaches is a recipe for disaster without proper security measures. They can also take into account what kind of attacks are most often carried out, and better prepare for them, though the current number shows many attacks of unknown types; that piece of information can be unsettling for researchers investigating cyber-attacks.