[Infowarrior] - Introducing the Data Loss Database - Open Source

[Richard Forno]

http://attrition.org/dataloss/dldos.html

Wed Aug 30 18:27:24 EDT 2006

Since July of 2005, attrition.org has been tracking data loss and data theft
incidents not just from the United States, but across the world. Our
archives go back to the year 2000, and with over 142 MILLION records
compromised in over 300 incidents across six years, we would finally like to
introduce a very basic and rudimentiary database that will assist others in
tracking these incidents.

DLDOS (Data Loss Database - Open Source) is a simple flat comma seperated
value file that can be imported into your database of choice, whether it be
MySQL, Microsoft Access, or Oracle (good luck). We provide the date, the
company that reported the breach, the type of data impacted, the number of
records impacted, third party companies involved, and a few other sortable
items that may be of interest.

At this point, attrition.org is not hosting an actual database itself, but
the raw data is free and available for use as long as attrition.org is
credited for the use of said data. Really, we're not trying to be jerks, but
if you're going to use our data in your research, be it a web site or paper
written for a commercial entity, just give us a shout out please.

Attrition.org's main data loss page can be found here:

http://attrition.org/dataloss/

Attrition.org's Data Loss Mail List information:

http://attrition.org/security/dataloss.html

Please feel free to use this information, build on it, grow on it, and share
it. Updates to the raw data will be provided by attrition.org weekly, if not
daily. Share and share alike; distribute and learn.