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Half of the Cardholders Will Avoid Stores Hit by Data Breaches

A study of a randomly selected 865 American adults who use debit or credit card showed that nearly half of them are reluctant this holiday season to return to hacked stored. We all know that data breaches are very common nowadays and people just want to protect their personal information.The study,conducted by landline and cell phone from 2 – 3 October by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for Credit.Cards.com showed that,Five percent of the respondents who use credit or debit cards would avoid stores that experienced a data breachSixteen percent of the respondents said that they would definitely not return to a store that had experienced hacking and twenty nine percent stated that they would probably not return to a hacked store.We have been