This is the event data we collected on news reports about compromised personal records from 1980-2006. The data was used in several articles and book chapters. While there is no formal code book we thought it was time to share the data and the best summary of our definition of [...]
Kris Erickson and Philip N. Howard. “A Case of Mistaken Identity? News Accounts of Hacker and Organizational Responsibility for Compromised Digital Records.” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 12, no. 4 (2007). The computer hacker is one of the most vilified figures in the digital era, but to what degree are [...]
Reuters Documentary on our study
Research Featured on ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2964460&page=1
Research featured in Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/286480/Internal_Snafus_Cause_of_Most_Breaches_Study_Says?taxonomyId=14&intsrc=kc_feat%3E%20nomyName=management&taxonomyName=management
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