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Re: Data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands

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Post by azinman2 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 7:41 PM UTC

>“The Marine Corps takes the protection of individual Marines’ private information and personal data very seriously, and we have steps in place to prevent the accidental or intentional release of such information,” Aranda said.

Apparently not.

Re: Data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands

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Post by mikeash » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #3

mikeash wrote: post #2

Why 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…

The top result on Google just says, “A data breach is a confirmed incident in which sensitive, confidential or otherwise protected data has been accessed and/or disclosed in an unauthorized fashion.”

Re: Data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands

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Post by mabbo » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 1:23 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #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.

Depends. If it's within your own org, there are often ways to server-side remove the email from everyone's account. I've seen it happen with an Outlook/exchange setup before.

Outlook also offers the ability to draw attention to your email by sending out a "The sender of this email would like to recall it. Please click okay when you're done reading whatever they sent and want to delete it."