• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Unless you are well over 80 years old, that is patently not true. Computer data breaches started happening in the intelligence sector in the late '50s to early '60s. They weren’t reported on. Corporate data breaches started happening in the mid '70s to early '80s. Again not widely reported on because that was mostly corporate espionage. The first major data breach that was reported on that I remember was the attack on the Dow Jones that happened in 1988 or 1989.

    Data breaches have included everything from floppy disks to tape drives. Not just emails and USB jump drives.