Data breaches have become increasingly common in recent years. As cybercriminals have become more organized and sophisticated, the repositories of personal user data held by many companies as a core part of their business strategy have become a common target of attack. Since many organizations do not have the appropriate defenses in place to fend off these attacks, data breaches now occur on a more than daily basis. One response to the growing threat of the data breach has been the passage of multiple data protection regulations. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is likely the most famous of these and inspired many others to be created. While the…