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Poll Shows Broad Impact of Cyberattacks

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Saturday, December 20th, 2014

Just fewer than half of Americans say that a retailer, bank or credit-card company has told them or a household member that their payment card details were stolen in a data breach, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

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