Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2022. Others warned that public reports could provide hackers information while attacks are in progress. “If a registrant discloses that it is currently the victim of a material cyber incident, that would tip off the malicious actor that the registrant is aware they’re in the victim company’s systems,” said Henry Young, policy director at industry lobbying group BSA, The Software Alliance, which represents commercial software makers. That may prompt hackers to steal data faster, or speed up timelines on attacks such as ransomware strikes once tipped off, he said. Read more