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Sarah Halzack

Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches

Information security won't improve unless chains pay a price for failure.
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The news has been dominated lately by the failure of one company, Facebook Inc., to safeguard customer data. But Facebook isn't alone.

In just the past two weeks, several major retailers have reported consumer data-security incidents: