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Your Personal Data Has Been Stolen. Will It Really Cost You Anything?

A breach at South Carolina’s Department of Revenue offers a real-world opportunity to answer that question

By Min-Seok Pang and Anthony Vance
Calculating the harm done to individual data-breach victims has proved elusive. Illustration: Jon Krause

What is the cost of a data breach to individuals whose information is stolen?

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