Talk:Data breach

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Data "Spill"
I work in the security industry and I have heard of data breaches but never a "data spill". The redirect from "Data Breach"->"Data Spill" is backwards.

The first paragraph that explains the name is "ironic" does not satisfy me or make any sense. So I'm going to switch this. DouglasHeld (talk) 17:21, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * From the perspective of the data steward, the preferred team is breached, casting attention on the illegal nature of the activity which deflects blame. From the perspective of the black hat, the preferred term might be data extraction or data liberation.  From the perspective of the disempowered consumer caught in the middle, data spill was a fine term, having little insight as to the competence or motive on either side.  As ever, few inside stakeholders adopt the lingo of the disenfranchised.
 * I liked the term spill because it was neutral on the malice/incompetence question, and generally there is plenty of both. In the oil patch, it's a spill whether someone drops a wrench or fires a rifle into a tank.  I don't think breach is well suited to the case where confidential data is carelessly exposed when remaindered equipment is auctioned off having failed to properly wipe the drives.  Big data corporations are supposed to know better, and so is Exxon.  &mdash; MaxEnt (talk) 23:01, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

OFS Data Loss database
There is a list of incidents by number of records, with references, at http://datalossdb.org/, including many large spills not listed here.--Langhorner (talk) 22:41, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Broken Link
Source #1 has a broken link. Many of the examples of data breaches link to this, so alternate sources need to be found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Treyofdenmark (talk • contribs) 02:31, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Federal Employees data breach
I removed a section about a data breach relating for four million U.S. Federal employees. It was written in a politically editorial style. However, it was certainly relevant, and it would be good to include a section on government data breaches that sticks closer to just the facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.191.31.200 (talk) 14:04, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

"Major incidents" section redundant due to List of data breaches?
I'm wondering if it would be best to remove the "Major incidents" section and instead move its content to a new column of the table of the List of data breaches. What do you think?

--Fixuture (talk) 18:03, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The List table is actually intended to only include "major" breaches, those with over 30,000 records, which is noted in the table's intro text. In any case, tables are always tricky to edit so keeping things simple is always helpful. --Light show (talk) 18:31, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Recent Pentagon Breach
Unless there isn’t enough information on this topic (which I highly doubt given how long ago it was), I believe we should add that here.

We can always build on it later… Stevemc01 (talk) 22:45, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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Major incidents
Since Wikipedia is not a collection of news stories, items in the "Major incidents" section should only include those with their own Wikipedia article (thus, "major") and not just any of hundreds of breaches that happen to have a news story written about them somewhere. I'm going to start cleaning this up in the next few days. -- Zim Zala Bim talk 15:45, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Adding a notable data breach
Should the recent Traderie data breach be added? Here are some sources I found: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/07/traderie-a-marketplace-for-in-game-items-alerts-users-to-data-breach/ https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/data-breach-disclosed-by-traderie https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/gaming-marketplace-traderie-alerts-users-to-data-breach

Others were Reddit post, not really notable sources, but still gave a hint many were heavily alarmed: https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyaleHigh_Roblox/comments/16g76ws/there_has_been_a_huge_traderie_data_breach_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nookazon/comments/16b6ekw/is_this_just_me/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo_2_Resurrected/comments/16avuc2/traderie_has_had_a_data_leak/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo_2_Resurrected/comments/166ktzs/traderie_compromised/ Cometkeiko (talk) 17:47, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Edit request
Please replace the content of this page with User:Buidhe paid/sandbox3.

Reasons: rewrite article according recent reliable sources, add sections about history and prevalence, perpetrators, causes, prevention and response, avoid duplication with List of data breaches. Buidhe paid (talk) 17:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I've started in on this task but it's going to take me much longer than expected to responsibly move the old information out to other articles before I can perform your wholesale re-write. I also note that there is some preexisting useful cited content. I'm hesitant to simply replace it. I see that the sources you've provided are books but you missed a few key sentences which can probably stay. It may be a couple days depending on how much time I can devote to this.  Chris Troutman  ( talk )  21:13, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅  Chris Troutman  ( talk )  18:10, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Wiki99 summary
Summary of changes as a result of the Wiki99 project (before, after, diff): Future steps for other editors to consider: Buidhe paid (talk) 17:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Complete rewrite according to recent, reliable sources
 * Add sections about history and prevalence, perpetrators, causes, prevention and response
 * Avoid duplication with List of data breaches
 * Another rewrite according to the GA review, during which it was assessed as meeting the community standards for a Good article
 * Listed to be considered for main page exposure:
 * "On this day" section for April 5, the anniversary of the first data breach
 * "Did you know" section for recently improved articles (nomination)
 * Improve the coverage to be even more comprehensive
 * Update the article in response to future developments