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Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure
From: Dennis Opacki <DOpacki () Covestic com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:37:50 -0700
Interesting. At least there seems to be a potential to mine these data for some useful threat metrics. -Dennis Opacki From: lyger Sent: Mon 8/7/2006 2:26 PM To: dataloss () attrition org Subject: [Dataloss] Details on AOL search log disclosure (from Dave Farber's IP list) Begin forwarded message: Date: August 7, 2006 1:12:38 PM EDT Subject: Re: [IP] AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users A search for an SSN shaped regex on the full AOL search data returns a 191 results including repeat searches. Many of these have full names, and at least a dozen include either an addresses, drivers license number, date of birth or some combination of the three in the same query. There's no telling how much more information an aggregation of other queries by those same user ID would yield. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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- Details on AOL search log disclosure lyger (Aug 07)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure Dennis Opacki (Aug 07)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure Chris Walsh (Aug 07)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure Joshua Reich (Aug 07)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure lyger (Aug 07)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure security curmudgeon (Aug 08)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure Jon Passki (Aug 10)
- Re: Details on AOL search log disclosure Joshua Reich (Aug 07)