Breach theory (the myriad vs. the mega-conspiracy)
- TAGS:BJ's warehouse, data breach, dsw, identity theft, TJX
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Internet, Security
Aside from the grim satisfaction of seeing criminals hauling before the Law, I'm liking today's news of indictments of eleven men on data-theft charges because it provides something that many security folk crave, and that the sane ones* actually get much too rarely:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a ginormous conspiracy.
Conspiracy! Instead of the thousand little glitches, biffs, stumbles, stupidities, accidents and just plain coincidences that security folk have to cope with on a daily basis, we have a coherent group of bad guys doing big things in an organized fashion. Conspiracy! Entropy isn't out to break our privacy, our networks and our last good nerve -- guys with monikers like "Jonny Hell" are! And people from the former Soviet Union! And Floridians -- you know how those folks do with tampering and skulduggery! CONSPIRACY!
*ahem* *sorry* A big day, and in all seriousness it's nice to think that maybe some of the mega-breaches we've seen in the past few years were due to a distinct group of crooks who are now out of commission. No one believes that breaches are going away -- honestly, four minutes after I added that story to our site, I was posting one about a "lost" laptop with TSA-related data. But if these 11 guys were responsible for so much mayhem, I'm pleased to hear they're collared.
* The sane ones. the wackadoos see conspiracies everywhere and like nothing more than to construct them on open tracts of mental real estate. The truth is out there, indeed.
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