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Here are just a few select examples
of serious data breaches in a recent 3-week span:
| Date |
Records |
Location |
Details |
| 4.29.2007 |
3,000 |
Univ. of New
Mexico
Alburquerque, NM |
Employees' personal information
including names, e-mail and home addresses, UNM ID numbers and net pay for a
pay period for staff, faculty and a few graduate students may have been stored
on a laptop computer stolen from the San Francisco office of an outside
consultant working on UNM's human resource and payroll systems. |
| 4.25.2007 |
160,000 |
Neiman Marcus Group
Dallas,
TX |
Computer equipment in the
possession of a pension consultant containing files with sensitive information
including name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, period of
employment and salary information of Neiman Marcus Group's current and former
employees and their spouses was stolen. |
| 4.24.2007 |
6,000 |
Baltimore County Dept. of Health
Baltimore, MD |
A laptop was stolen containing
personal information including names, date of birth, Social Security numbers,
telephone numbers and emergency contact info of patients the clinic between
Jan. 1, 2004 and April 12. |
| 4.23.2007 |
2,300 |
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
Washington, DC |
Social Security numbers of FEMA
Disaster Assistance Employees were printed on the outside address labels of
reappointment letters |
| 4.18.2007 |
17,500 |
Ohio State Univ.
Columbus,
OH |
A hacker accessed the names,
Social Security numbers, employee ID numbers and birth dates of 14,000 current
and former staff members. In a separate incident, the names, Social Security
numbers and grades of 3,500 former chemistry students were on class rosters
housed on two laptop computers stolen from a professor's home in late
February. |
| 4.11.2007 |
12,000 |
ChildNet
Ft. Lauderdale,
FL |
An organization responsible for
managing Broward County's child welfare system believe a former employee stole
a laptop from the agency's office. It contains personal info of adoptive and
foster-care parents including financial & credit data, Social Security #s,
driver's license data and passport numbers |
| 4.11.2007 |
9,000 |
New Horizons
Credit
Union
Denver, CO |
A laptop storing personal info of
members with loans was stolen from Protiviti, a consultant employed by Bellco
Credit Union conducting due diligence for a possible acquisition bid. |
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