Google Map of All Breaches, Hacks and Stolen Laptops from The Government
In researching more about the FAA site, GovTrip, being hijacked, we came across a blog post from OhMyGov, which highlights all the areas where significant data breaches happened, sites were hacked or lap tops were either stolen or “went missing” from the government. From chronicling the incident where 160 lap tops were stolen from the FBI in 2002 to pretty much any incident that happened (of course the stolen Veteran Affairs lap top is included as well). Check out the map here.
As expected, most of the incidents happened in the east coast, but there are a fair number spread out through the mid-west and some in California. So, what does this map tell us – besides being a neat resource that has captured all government-related breaches and hacks? It tells us that data breaches, hacking into sites and other cyber crimes against the government can happen anywhere and anytime.
What do you all think about this?
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Comment from Linked-In:
“Makes me wonder how much they get paid for “losing” a laptop.”
From Linked-In:
“Hope they had encryption. Does the government now use any form of auto-call back to register the location of the pc device? I left that sector 4 years ago, so just curious. I was architecting a solution that did this with stock laptops for Deloitte. It wasn’t complicated at all.”