Now, if I heard you correctly in your testimony, you said that two-thirds of the time when you respond to a company that has said, 'We have been hacked,' they had no idea that they had been hacked until some Government agency warned them, often the FBI--usually the FBI, sometimes the Department of Homeland Security.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “Now, if I heard you correctly in your testimony, you said that two-thirds of the time when you respond to a company that…”
On the recordMay 7, 2013
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Whitehouse highlights the lack of awareness among companies about cyber hacks.
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