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Most Retailer Breaches Are Not Disclosed, Gartner Says

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While nearly half of U.S. retailers have been hit with some kind of information security attack, only a small percentage of them have actually reported breaches to their customers, research company Gartner reports.

In a new study based on interviews with 50 U.S. retailers, Gartner found that 21 of them were certain they had had a data breach. However, just three of the retailers had disclosed the incident to the public.

The small number of retailers in the survey make it impossible to draw any firm conclusions from the data, but it does underscore a noteworthy trend, said Gartner analyst Avivah Litan. "Sensitive data is being stolen and most of the time it's not being disclosed," she said. "There are a lot more breaches than we hear about."

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