Fwd: Turns out data breaches are older than manned flight

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

> From the folks at Attrition and the DataLossDB.

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From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Jun 4, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: Turns out data breaches are older than manned flight
To: dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org, dataloss () datalossdb org

 (McNamara wrote up a good summary of the DatalossDB contest we had, neat
  point about 'older than manned flight' =)  - jericho)

 http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/42302?source=NWWNLE_nlt_buzzblog_2009-06-04

 Turns out data breaches are older than manned flight
 By Paul McNamara on Mon, 06/01/09 - 9:30am.

 What's the oldest data-loss incident on record involving social security
 numbers?

 How about health-care industry records?

 Well, there's no way to know for certain, but the Open Security
 Foundation's DataLossDB has just concluded a six-week contest that invited
 amateur sleuths to submit the oldest such loss incidents they could find.
 The results were announced this morning on the organization's blog.

 Contest rules required that the incidents involve personally identifiable
 information, so there was particular interest in long-ago losses of Social
 Security numbers. Contest winner, Corey Chandler -- who provided answers
 to both of the questions above -- dug back into a New York Times article
 from 1953 (fee required) to learn of an episode that was apparently an
 inside job:

 [..]

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