Accounting 326 Writing Assignment

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When global firms like Home Depot and Target become prime targets for hackers, the attack themselves become front-page news. Firms like these have invested a ton of resources (financial and non-financial) to prevent such an attack, but the attack is successful. Financial and personal data have been compromised, and now everyone wants answers. Your challenge is to argue the position of whether or not companies should be held liable for losses sustained in a successful attack made on their AIS applications (sales, billing, cash collections, credit, etc.) by hackers.