Cybersecurity practitioners who scan the dark web for threats against a client, or its stolen assets, also commonly spot data or assets belonging to non-client organizations and offer courtesy reports to those businesses.
Kurtis Minder, CEO of digital risk management company GroupSense, and Joe Meadows, a shareholder at Bean, Kinney & Korman, told the Cybersecurity Law Report about how victim companies commonly ignore courtesy warnings of a data breach, and the need for a uniform clear channel for white-hat reports about breaches and lost corporate assets.