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California reports massive data breach
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-10-19

The FBI is investigating the penetration of a university research system that housed sensitive personal data on a staggering 1.4 million Californians who participated in a state social program, officials said Tuesday.

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Cryptography Ignored? 2004-10-23
Drew Miller
How very interesting this is. Encrypting data would at least have protected some of the data, forcing the criminals to independantly brute force each of the pieces of data... oops on their part.

Did the criminal get away with names, numbers and addresses?

Or did the criminal get away with encr...

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