Database – Issue: Privacy vs Security

Explain the difference between data matching and data mining.

Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information and the data matching describes the efforts of a company to compare two sets of data. The data mining is for collecting the data and make inferences about it, and the data matching is compare the data collected between each other. 

Issue: security

Describe how data was lost in South Carolina tax databases.

The data wasn't lost, it was stolen by a Russian hacker. He used to hacked the financial information of all the people in the database and he sell the credit card numbers and personal information in a webpage. Depending of on the amount of money that the person have, it was the price of the information.


List the sensitive data that was lost in this security breach. How is this information going to be misused?

Credit card number
Tax returns
Debit card number
Bank number account
Social security number

Draw a conceptual map of database security breach. How is this information going to be misused?