This paper explores the novel topic of data breach journalism and data breach news through the case of databreaches.net, a news outlet dedicated to data breaches and related cyber crime. Motivated by the issues in traditional crime news and crime journalism, the case is explored by the means of text mining. According to the results, the outlet has kept a steady publishing pace, mainly focusing on plain and short reporting but with generally high-quality source material for the news articles. Despite these characteristics, the news articles exhibit fairly strong sentiments, which is partially expected due to the presence of emotionally laden crime and the long history of sensationalism in crime news. The news site has also covered the full scope of data breaches, although many of these are fairly traditional, exposing personal identifiers and financial details of the victims. Also hospitals and the healthcare sector stand out. With these results, the paper advances the study of data breaches by considering these from the perspective of media and journalism.

翻译：本文以专注于数据泄露及相关网络犯罪报道的新闻网站databreaches.net为案例，探讨数据泄露新闻学与数据泄露报道这一新型议题。受传统犯罪新闻与犯罪报道中存在问题之驱动，本研究采用文本挖掘方法对该案例进行分析。研究结果显示，该媒体维持了稳定的发布节奏，主要侧重于简洁短篇报道，但其新闻文章普遍采用高质量信源材料。尽管具备这些特征，这些新闻文章仍展现出较强的情感倾向，这在一定程度上符合预期——既源于犯罪事件本身的情感载荷属性，也与犯罪新闻长期存在的煽情化传统相关。该新闻网站还涵盖了数据泄露事件的全貌，尽管多数事件属于较为传统的类型，涉及受害者个人身份标识及财务信息。其中医院及医疗保健领域尤为突出。基于上述发现，本文通过媒体与新闻学视角推进了数据泄露研究。