What do they have to do with your personal information, and how worried should you be?

  • Written by: Merrill Warkentin, James J. Rouse Endowed Professor of Information Systems, Mississippi State University
What do they have to do with your personal information, and how worried should you be?Credit bureau Equifax announced in 2017 that the personal information of 143 million Americans – about three-quarters of all adults – had been exposed in a major data breach.AP Photo/Mike Stewart

The headlines are filled with news about ransomware attacks tying up organizations large and small, data breaches at major brand-name...

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