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El Reg interviews breach expert Troy Hunt, who is skeptical of the spate of reports of government-sponsored data breaches. A snippet (emphasis added):
“Blaming state hackers has become like a ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse,” he added.
El Reg caught up with Hunt for 30 minutes shortly after he spoke about data breaches and other matters at the ScotSoft conference in Edinburgh on Thursday.
He said that large datasets such as the LinkedIn cache were commonly dumped online by hackers when when they are “no longer profitable to sell”. There are exceptions to this rule such as Ashley Madison, where hackers immediately leaked the purloined data as wide as possible in an effort to embarrass and pressurise the business.
Details at the link.