Dear Snowflake: Happy ‘Data Privacy Day’
Summary: A Krebs on Security post from January 2010 marks National Data Privacy Day by noting that at least 30 congressional websites were defaced, later reported by the AP as 49 House sites, and that a stolen or misplaced National Archives hard drive exposed Social Security data on roughly 250,000 people, including the author's wife. The post also cites the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Panopticlick test, which reported the author's browser fingerprint as unique among 109,895 tested and conveying at least 16.75 bits of identifying information.
What you should know: The same post shows a single hard drive from the National Archives exposing Social Security numbers for about 250,000 people, a reminder that the personal data organizations hold is often compromised by basic physical and handling failures rather than sophisticated attacks.
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