美國在線發佈了一個包含658，000個用戶三個月匿名檢索記錄的文件，但迫於公衆的壓力，在星期一將其從網上摘除。
Internet服務提供商在一份聲明中稱：這些泄漏出來的從三月到六月的檢索記錄，佔據了這斷時間內所有檢索記錄的0.33%。幾個Blog 與該事件有關，估計大約幾百，也可能上千人下載了這些數據。
AOL發言人 安德魯。愛因斯坦在聲明中說到：“雖然沒有與這些泄漏帳號相關的私祕數據被泄漏，但我們不能絕對保證這這一點。這是一個錯誤，我們表示道歉。我們已經展開了內部調查事情的緣由，並且我們將採取錯誤保證類似事情不會再發生”。
經過過去兩年發生的事件，公衆對隱私已經變得更加敏感。在五月，退伍軍人事務部警告說：在五月初，一臺膝上電腦和外置硬盤從一個僱員家裏被盜。最終被找回來，在這兩個設備裏面，包含了大約2千6百五十萬退役士兵的詳細信息的的數據庫。Texas大學在四月警告學生和工作人員，大約19700包含個人身份信息的記錄被一個黑客訪問。
這些事件和其他2005年發生的事件促使布什政府強制要求聯邦機構配備更好的安全以保護移動設備的敏感數據。
原文：http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/274
America Online posted a file containing three months of anonymized search queries of 658,000 users and then pulled the data down on Monday following a public outcry.
The searches, conducted between March and May, accounted for 1/3 of one percent of the total searches conducted during that period, the Internet service provider said in a statement. Several blogs picked up on the incident, estimating that hundreds and perhaps thousands of people downloaded the data.
"Although there was no personally-identifiable data linked to these accounts, we're absolutely not defending this," AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein said in the statement. "It was a mistake, and we apologize. We've launched an internal investigation into what happened, and we are taking steps to ensure that this type of thing never happens again."
The public has become more sensitive to privacy breaches following a number of high-profile cases in the past two years. In May, the Department of Veterans Affairs warned that a laptop and external hard drive had been stolen from an employee's home early that month. While the two devices were eventually recovered, they had contained a database with the personal details of nearly 26.5 million veterans. The University of Texas at Austin warned students and workers in April that 197,000 records containing personally identifiable information had been accessed by an online attacker.
The incidents and others in 2005 led the Bush Administration to mandate that federal agencies deploy better security to protect mobile devices with sensitive data.