The breach set off a lively blog discussion about how the affected charities should respond.
In the 1980s, as teachers stopped running after-school clubs, parents stepped into the breach, setting up and running children's football teams themselves.
Also, Mr. Blair said, "we set up a system for tracking and emphasizing security breach investigations, set deadlines and priorities and kept the pressure on".
The hackers behind the attack on infidelity website Ashley Madison alerted staff to the breach by setting their laptops to play AC/DC song 'Thunderstruck'.
A number of universities said that they had departments that were "cautious" in making offers because they did not want to breach their set student limit.
When a passenger reported the breach, it set off seven hours of chaos, starting with the evacuation of the airport's busiest terminal on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
So the Federal Trade Commission has stepped into the breach to set minimum standards of behavior — pursuing companies for deceiving consumers about how they will use names, e-mails and browsing habits.
"It's a huge mob scene," said Nyah Cheang, 25, of Queens, who was heading for an afternoon flight to Las Vegas when the breach occurred, setting off alarms and prompting crews to lower security gates.
Only those countries in breach of set limits on governments' debt stocks and annual deficits would have to contribute, giving them an incentive to keep their finances in order.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, went on trial on Saturday on charges of stealing the pope's confidential papers and leaking them to the press, an unprecedented security breach that set off an embarrassingly public airing of back-room intrigue and allegations of corruption at an institution known for its secrecy.
