Security Analysis: The Case For Disclosing Breach Data is The New School Of Information Security. Learn why covering up a data breach is a bad short-term strategy and a risky long-term one. We argue objective data that would enable good security decisions is in short supply. People dislike talking about security mistakes, but there may be an invisible epidemic of mistakes being made in information security, we say. We write that all sorts of groups have experienced breaches over 700 organizations over the past two years.”]