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Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity
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Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity

by Sherri Davidoff
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
16h 55m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. Hazardous Material

November 14, 1980 (noon) - The phone rang at a desk at National CSS (NCSS) headquarters in Wilton, Connecticut. A woman answered. On the other end of the line, a voice asked jokingly, “What would you give for the [password] directory?”1 The caller was referring to the highly sensitive database on NCSS systems that contained all 14,000 customer user IDs and passwords. But it wasn’t funny—he really had the data.

1. “Event Report as of 1/21/81 08:45:30,” FBI file 196A-397 (New Haven), FOIA/PA #1364189-0, E3df34b6cc6c2a9a14ddc71e47c1a18b8d966c57f_Q3702_R343967_D1813129.pdf, January 21, 1981, 48 (obtained under the FOIA from the FBI; received March 2019).

At the time, NCSS was a top computer time-sharing company. A predecessor ...

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