• In an era where more and more data are stored online and cyberattacks are discovered with regularity, reporting mechanisms are still lacking in Asia, experts say. | ISTOCK
    In an era where more and more data are stored online and cyberattacks are discovered with regularity, reporting mechanisms are still lacking in Asia, experts say. | ISTOCK
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Once a month, cybersecurity lawyer Paul Haswell gets a call from an Asian company with the same question: We’ve been hacked. Who do we need to tell?

More often than not, his answer is “no one.” The client will hang up before Haswell can urge them to go public anyway.

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