A Brief History of Top Security Breaches

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOP SECURITY BREACHES Data security has been a concern since the dawn of the spoken word, and breaches throughout history have led to both good and bad results for society. Today, with our information being mostly digital, hacks have become even more common. Employment of information security analysts, web developers and computer network architects is projected to grow 22% from 2010 to 2020' – faster than the average for all occupations. So, when did these data breaks begin? Here are some of history's top information breaches. 1600 THE GUNPOWDER PLOT November 5, 1605 A scheme to kilI King James I using 36 barrels of gunpowder that Guy Fawkes was guarding was uncovered. 1700 CASANOVA Spies for Venetian Inquisitors 1774-1783 Casanova spied for the Venetian Inquisitors of State. THE MIDNIGHT RIDE April 18, 1775 Paul Revere warns colonists about 1800 movement ol British troops. WEST POINT SECRETS April-September 1780 Benedict Arnold attempts to sell secrets to the British about American troops and THE ENIGMA MACHINE December1932 Polish Cipher Bureau The Polish government's cryptography agency decoded the cipher for Germany's early Enigma machines. West Point. 1900 WATERGATE 1972-1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon was SOVIET UNION SPIES 1951 U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg passed thousands of documents to 2000 involved in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel where cash found on the burglars was used by a Nixon campaign committee. the Communists. THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR November 1986 The Iranian government's weapons-for-hostages. deal with the U.S. THE X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE LEAK March 31, 2009 was leaked, An unfinished version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way online before its official release. Virus detected! THE STUXNET VIRUS 2010-ongoing Computer virus WIKILEAKS & THE IRAQ WAR LOGS April-October 2010 A series of leaked gov- THE GAWKER Stuxnet was cre- ernment documents and MEDIA HACK ated to hinder the classified video from the December 2010 development of Iran's nuclear power Iraq War were leaked. The email addresses and passwords for more program. than 1.3 million Gawker Media readers were compromised. THE SONY PLAYSTATION NETWORK BREACH April 2011 More than 77 million of Sony's PlayStation Network accounts were hacked. THE KT CORPORATION HACK February-July 2012 million KT mobile phone subscribers in South Korea. WIKILEAKS & THE SYRIA FILES July 2012 More than 2.4 million private emails to and from political figures in Syria found their way online. User info was stolen from more than U.S. Bureau of Labor Stalistica, U.S. Department of labor, Occupational Out- look Handbook, 2012-13 Edition, Information Security Analyshs, Web Develop- ers, and Computer Network Architech, on the Internel KNOW HOW DeVry V Unjversity FOR A NEW TOMORROW A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOP SECURITY BREACHES Data security has been a concern since the dawn of the spoken word, and breaches throughout history have led to both good and bad results for society. Today, with our information being mostly digital, hacks have become even more common. Employment of information security analysts, web developers and computer network architects is projected to grow 22% from 2010 to 2020' – faster than the average for all occupations. So, when did these data breaks begin? Here are some of history's top information breaches. 1600 THE GUNPOWDER PLOT November 5, 1605 A scheme to kilI King James I using 36 barrels of gunpowder that Guy Fawkes was guarding was uncovered. 1700 CASANOVA Spies for Venetian Inquisitors 1774-1783 Casanova spied for the Venetian Inquisitors of State. THE MIDNIGHT RIDE April 18, 1775 Paul Revere warns colonists about 1800 movement ol British troops. WEST POINT SECRETS April-September 1780 Benedict Arnold attempts to sell secrets to the British about American troops and THE ENIGMA MACHINE December1932 Polish Cipher Bureau The Polish government's cryptography agency decoded the cipher for Germany's early Enigma machines. West Point. 1900 WATERGATE 1972-1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon was SOVIET UNION SPIES 1951 U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg passed thousands of documents to 2000 involved in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel where cash found on the burglars was used by a Nixon campaign committee. the Communists. THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR November 1986 The Iranian government's weapons-for-hostages. deal with the U.S. THE X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE LEAK March 31, 2009 was leaked, An unfinished version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way online before its official release. Virus detected! THE STUXNET VIRUS 2010-ongoing Computer virus WIKILEAKS & THE IRAQ WAR LOGS April-October 2010 A series of leaked gov- THE GAWKER Stuxnet was cre- ernment documents and MEDIA HACK ated to hinder the classified video from the December 2010 development of Iran's nuclear power Iraq War were leaked. The email addresses and passwords for more program. than 1.3 million Gawker Media readers were compromised. THE SONY PLAYSTATION NETWORK BREACH April 2011 More than 77 million of Sony's PlayStation Network accounts were hacked. THE KT CORPORATION HACK February-July 2012 million KT mobile phone subscribers in South Korea. WIKILEAKS & THE SYRIA FILES July 2012 More than 2.4 million private emails to and from political figures in Syria found their way online. User info was stolen from more than U.S. Bureau of Labor Stalistica, U.S. Department of labor, Occupational Out- look Handbook, 2012-13 Edition, Information Security Analyshs, Web Develop- ers, and Computer Network Architech, on the Internel KNOW HOW DeVry V Unjversity FOR A NEW TOMORROW