Sony Gets Hacked (and 9 other Data Leaks/Breaches)

[dconnors]

The PSN and SOE intrusions are the latest massive data breaches and leaks. We've looked at nine other cases of hacking, espionage and plain old corporate stupidity.

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[Guest]

I like the article however you appear to be missing the potentially scarier breach that happenned to RSA on March 18th 2011. Customer data was not stolen but information regarding the SecureID system used by thousands of comanies may have been obtained.

 

[dconnors]

[citation][nom]JimmyBoy5874545[/nom]I like the article however you appear to be missing the potentially scarier breach that happenned to RSA on March 18th 2011. Customer data was not stolen but information regarding the SecureID system used by thousands of comanies may have been obtained.[/citation]

Thanks for reading! We wanted to cap this article at ten examples so we left out the RSA breach, as well as a few dozen other companies/entities.

-Devin Connors

 

[Guest]

excellent article. very informative! and very interesting!

 

[fir_ser]

Good article, it shows that no company or government agency is immune from data breach.

 

[Guest]

Texas pension system had a big breach this spring, exposing sensitive information, including SSNs, of ~3.5M Texas state employees: http/www.txsafeguard.org/ .
Some of that data was left unencrypted on the server for over 1 year!

The post-handling of the issue is also somewhat questionable (from the point of view of the end-user, err. victim).
There is an interesting discussion on that here: http/door64.com/blog/n/30938

 

[Guest]

Gawker Media was the best. That made me so, so happy back then. Gizmodo and Kotaku writers made me hate that company like I've never hated a company before.

 

[wild9]

[citation][nom]fir_ser[/nom]Good article, it shows that no company or government agency is immune from data breach.[/citation]

Thank God American electronic voting machines are immune to fraud.

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