2017 — Bloomberg: Nearly one thousand Bloomberg terminal users…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
Nearly one thousand Bloomberg terminal users participating in an anonymous chat room had their identities unmasked this week when a London investment company sent out a list of the participants — including names and employers — to people in the chat room, The Post has learned.The data breach, one of the largest ever for former Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s financial information company, led moderators to shut down the metal and mining chat, as well as two others — one that focused on macroeconomic data
Root cause
Unintended disclosure