A discount store chain has a data breach, which means that a hacker now has the credit card numbers of every customer who shopped at that store in the last month. As a result, customers are angry with the store because they have to respond to credit card fraud, and so sales decrease at the store.

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A discount store chain has a data breach, which means that a hacker now has the credit card numbers of every customer who shopped at that store in the last month. As a result, customers are angry with the store because they have to respond to credit card fraud, and so sales decrease at the store.
Which of the following would have most likely prevented this problem?
(1 point)
• investing in more bandwidth
• investing in faster processors
• investing in more mainframes
• investing in better security

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The option that would have most likely prevented the data breach problem is:

• investing in better security

Improving security measures would help protect customer data and prevent unauthorized access by hackers, thereby reducing the risk of a data breach and the subsequent consequences.