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The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast.

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Search results for "data breaches" ...

  • Cyber-War

    The series contains three articles detailing the extent of computer breaches, technology blunders and data theft that puts the U.S. defense industry, military and space agency in a vulnerable position.

    Tags: NASA; Booz Allen Hamilton; computer; satellite; national security; espionage; microchip; networks;

    By Keith Epstein; Brian Grow; Ben Elgin; Cliff Edwards; Chi-Chu Tschang;

    Business Week

    2008

  • Cybercrime

    This series provides "one of the first in-depth looks at how the online criminal community operates and how law enforcement moles are used to ensnare them, using sometimes questionable methods that allow many crimes to flourish under the watch of law enforcement agents and go unpunished."

    Tags: cybercrime; online thieves; law enforcement moles; cybercrook; FBI; online finance; data breaches; identity theft; Internet; computer security;

    By Kim Zetter; Kevin Poulsen

    Freelance

    2007

  • Privacy Lost

    The Tampa Tribune series "Privacy Lost" explores the ways patients' privacy is violated -- often without their knowledge. The series was an out-growth of the nation's worst breach of AIDS patient's privacy.

    Tags: AIDS; privacy; violation; patients; disease; data

    By Craig S. Palosky and Doug Stanley

    Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)

    1997

  • Death by Chopper; High-flying crime

    Seattle Weekly investigates fair-business law violations by Boeing, the world's biggest plane maker. The first story reveals that the corporation was accused of hiding flawed parts on U.S. military choppers, which the government says led to at least one fatal crash. The second story summarizes the claims against Boeing over the last two decades: illegally selling technology to overseas companies, trafficking, involvement in a major military contract-procurement scandal, bribery, and breach of supply contracts. "Boeing's latest fine sends its corporate rap sheet soaring to $100 million in the last three years," Anderson reports. Though the company has admitted some of its export law violations, it claims that "it's a mistake to think of Boeing and corruption in the same sentence," according to a quote by the vice-president of the corporation.

    Tags: defense; military contracts; Army; business; Department of Navy; corruption; bribe; Congress; fraud; kickbacks; airplanes; technology; data; know-how; helicopters

    By Rick Anderson

    Seattle Weekly

    2000