The raw data were accessed under accession number GSE42836 from the NCBI GEO database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo, last accessed November 1, 2014).
Data were accessed from the NCBI GEO database accession number GSE7307.
Of the 5.9m cards that were accessed illegally, 5.8m were chip and pin protected, and no pin codes, card verification values (CVV) or authentication data were accessed, meaning purchases could not be made.
Data were Accessed in September, 2016.
No approval from the regional ethics committee was necessary as no individual patient identifiable data were accessed by the researchers.
Patient data were accessed via the database program and exported to an Excel worksheet (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA).
Rainfall data were accessed from the DBHydro database provided by the South Florida Water Management District: ( http://www.sfwmd.gov/dbhydroplsql/show_dbkey_info.main_menu ).sfwmd.gov/dbhydroplsql/show_dbkey_info.main_menu
The GIS data were accessed primarily from the Transportation Planning and Programming (TPP) division of TxDOT and the Texas Natural Resources Information System TNRISS).
4These data were accessed via an interagency agreement between the Department of Education (for whom this work was conducted) and the SSA.
Data were accessed from the institutional radiology information system (CRIS Healthcare Software Systemss, Banbury, UK) and Patient Pathway Manager (PPM, Leeds, UK; an electronic patient record system).
In most cases, like Sony or Anthem, the breach isn't even detected until months later, after which system administrators must identify which pieces of data were accessed and/or manipulated — an economically and socially costly task.
