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Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do with it

  • Written by Ravi Sen, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University
imageThe black market for stolen personal information motivates most data breaches.aleksey-martynyuk/iStock via Getty Images

Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were stolen and the financial and...

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