Details on AOL search log disclosure

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

(from Dave Farber's IP list)

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Date: August 7, 2006 1:12:38 PM EDT
Subject: Re: [IP] AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users


A search for an SSN shaped regex on the full AOL search data returns a 191 
results including repeat searches.  Many of these have full names, and at least 
a dozen include either an addresses, drivers license number, date of birth or 
some combination of the three in the same query.  There's no telling how much 
more information an aggregation of other queries by those same user ID would 
yield.
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