Gartner: Nearly half of U.S. retailers have been hit with some kind of information security attack. But only a small percentage of them have actually reported breaches to their customers. Data breaches at retailers are the top cause of credit and debit card theft, accounting for about 20 percent of all incidents. Gartners: Bad publicity that results from such disclosures has made retailers reluctant to make them disclose them. Data thieves were able to get access to an estimated 94 million payment card numbers by hacking TJX’s computer systems.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2122745/most-retailer-breaches-not-disclosed–gartner-says.html