Dallas city officials in an ongoing audit of police crime data found that the data missing from the city’s computer database is almost triple the initial estimate.
An additional 15 terabytes of police data have been found to be missing after a city information technician inadvertently deleted 22 terabytes of such crime data as photos, videos and other documents.
However the technicians recovered 14 terabytes, but about eight terabytes were likely lost forever.
Source: https://www.ksla.com/2021/08/31/dallas-police-data-loss-nearly-triple-initial-estimate
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"linkid": "dallaspd",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "08/2021",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Law Enforcement',
'location': 'Dallas, Texas',
'name': 'Dallas Police Department',
'type': 'Government Agency'}],
'attack_vector': 'Accidental Deletion',
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'description': 'Dallas city officials discovered that a significant amount of '
'police crime data was missing from the city’s computer '
'database, almost triple the initial estimate. An additional '
'15 terabytes of police data were found to be missing after a '
'city information technician inadvertently deleted 22 '
'terabytes of such crime data as photos, videos and other '
'documents. However, technicians recovered 14 terabytes, but '
'about eight terabytes were likely lost forever.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['22 terabytes of police crime data'],
'systems_affected': ['City’s computer database']},
'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': ['Human error']},
'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Data recovery efforts']},
'title': 'Dallas Police Crime Data Deletion Incident',
'type': 'Data Loss'}