Data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands
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Data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands
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#2Why wouldn’t it be?
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#3Why wouldn’t it be?
Guess it's about intent. They write "data spillage" which I take as "accidently sent to wrong people" while "data breach" which I would take as "someone took the data with intent to spread it".
From the article:
> Personal information can be used by criminals or entities to steal identities, commit bank and credit fraud, or phishing schemes.
Getting a bit tired of this. You can't really steal someones identity. But a criminal could use this to commit fraud, but you still have your own identity.
Guess it's the same as with piracy. It's not really stealing so much as copying, but everyone calls it stealing...
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#4They always have been. In what world would sending confidential information to someone who isn't supposed to have access to it not be considered a breach? Intent doesn't matter in these situations.
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#5always has been if the contents of the mail are sensitive
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#6always has been if the contents of the mail are sensitive
no different than if you accidentally leave an S3 bucket exposed to the internet. It's negligence either way.
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#7The submitted title ("Emails sent to the wrong people are data breaches now?") broke the HN guidelines by editorializing. Please don't do that. The rule here is to use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. In the latter case, please rewrite it in an accurate, neutral way, preferably using representative language from the article itself.
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#8They always have been. In what world would sending confidential information to someone who isn't supposed to have access to it not be considered a breach? Intent doesn't matter in these situations.
The word "breach" often implies more of a "breaking in" action, one of its definitions on dictionary.com is "make a gap in and break through."
Either way, someone has your data who isn't supposed to, but it feels a bit like a tree falling on your car and calling it a "car accident."
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#9I'm surprised no one has asked the obvious: why the heck were they emailing this kind of attachment period...
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#10> “It was very quickly noticed and email recall procedures were implemented to reduce the number of accounts that received it,” Aranda said.
What are they talking about when they mention "email recall procedure[s]"? Once you've sent an email, you've sent it.