[attrition] [Dataloss] The DataLossDB project welcomes Dissent! (fwd)

[security curmudgeon]

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From: Jake Kouns <jkouns at opensecurityfoundation.org>
To: dataloss at datalossdb.org, dataloss-discuss at datalossdb.org
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:28:31 -0400
Subject: [Dataloss] The DataLossDB project welcomes Dissent!

http://datalossdb.org/incident_highlights/51-the-datalossdb-project-welcomes-dissent

The Open Security Foundation is pleased to announce that Dissent, the
publisher and maintainer of DataBreaches.net and PHIprivacy.net has
now joined DataLossDB as a curator for the project.

OSF has worked with Dissent over the years and she is already known to
us a DataLoss Archaeologist, as she took third place in our ?Oldest
Incident? contest. She found the 1984 TRW incident, where computer
hackers gained access to a system holding credit histories of some 90
million people which happens to be the 3rd largest breaches of all
time in DataLossDB. Her more active involvement with the project on a
day-to-day basis will help us remain the most complete archive of
dataloss incidents world-wide and will enhance our ability to keep
current on more breaches in a timely manner. Dissent will continue to
maintain her own web sites as a resource on breach news and issues.

For those who do not know Dissent, she's a practicing health care
professional with a special concern for health care sector breaches,
and we expect to see increased coverage of medical sector breaches in
the database in months to come. As Dissent notes, "With recent changes
to federal laws making more information available to us about health
care sector breaches, we are now beginning to get some sense of how
common these breaches are and the common breach types. Including these
incidents in the database will enable analyses that would not have
been possible or meaningful just a few years ago."

Open Security Foundation?s CEO, Jake Kouns says, ?Dissent has been a
supporter of DataLossDB from the very beginning and is an extremely
dedicated and thorough researcher.? ?We are extremely fortunate to
have her as part of the DataLossDB team and look forward to working
more closely with her.?

Welcome Dissent, our newest curator and resident research queen!
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