Global Warming Email Hack Reveals Value of Routine Correspondence

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Hackers breached a university email system and uncovered a treasure trove of scientific correspondence that raises doubts about the global warming trend. The incidence is a classic example of how even routine data has value and leaks harm businesses.

 

Several solution providers and security vendors have told me of late that the biggest stumbling block in selling protection technology to SMBs is their perception that they have nothing to protect. Perhaps that's true since the value of the information is in the eyes of the owner, and many don't consider email to be necessarily "valuable."

That's not the case at the University of East Anglia, which suffered an email security breach that exposed a cache of correspondence between global warming scientists that discuss, among other things, how to counter skeptics. The messages, some say, contain evidence that proves a conspiracy exists to promote the notion that the mean global temperatures are rising and will result in catastrophic disasters if reformers are not enacted.

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Source: Lawrence Walsh, Channel Insider

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