Data Loss Source: About 13,000 employees at Pfizer Inc. had their personal information compromised when a company laptop and flash drive were stolen.
Date of Loss: May 12, 2008
Size of Loss : 1,300
Affected Individuals: Pfizer employees
Geographic Focus: New York, NY
Data contained: Names, home addresses, home telephone numbers, employee ID numbers, positions and salaries were possibly compromised. Other information possibly lost included the department employees worked in, the Pfizer site where the employees worked, the name of employees’ managers and descriptions of their jobs.
Additional Notes: The data breach, which occurred about a month ago, was the second this year affecting Pfizer Inc. employees and the sixth made public in a one-year span dating back to May 2007.
Additional Information: www.TheDay.com

Data Loss Source: Thieves stole two laptops containing information from global investment management firm T. Rowe Price.
Date of Loss: January 28, 2008
Size of Loss: 35,000 records
Affected Individuals: Current and former participants in “several hundred” T. Rowe Price retirement plans.
Geographic Focus: Baltimore, MD
Data contained: Social Security numbers and names
Additional Notes: The third-party provider, CBIZ Benefits and Insurance, was contracted by T. Rowe to prepare IRS forms 5500 for these individuals, Lewbart said. The forms required certain personal information, which was stored on the unencrypted computer hard drives.
Additional Information: SC Magazine

Data Loss Source: Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. policyholders in Ohio were included in a data security breach the company discovered in September, according to a recent announcement.
Date of Loss: Sept. 27, 2007
Size of Loss: 230,000
Affected Individuals: Customers
Geographic Focus: Hartford, CT
Data contained: Personal information
Additional Notes:: The insurer misplaced three backup tapes that contained personal information of 230,000 customers, including 9,200 Ohioans, mainly of the company’s property lines. Hartford has found no evidence that it was stolen or that customers are at risk of identity theft. The company is offering one year of credit protection.
Additional Information: Columbus Business First

Data Loss Source: Kingston Technologies Inc., a maker of computer memory technologies, sent out letters this week to 27,000 customers in connection with a September 2005 data breach that the company did not discover until recently.
Date of Loss: 2005
Size of Loss: 27,000
Affected Individuals: Kingston customers
Geographic Focus: Fountain Valley, CA
Data contained: Customer data
Additional Notes:: According to a spokesman, Kingston’s IT team “detected irregularities” in the company computer systems at some unspecified point in time and — along with a team of forensic computer experts — began investigating the issues. It was not until after that probe was completed and a final report released on May 22 that Kingston could confirm the scope of the intrusion and its impact.
Additional Information: Computerworld
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Data Loss Source: A subcontractor working for Alta Resources, a company that processes and fulfills orders for the Disney Movie Club sold credit card numbers and other account information belonging to an unknown number of customers to undercover law enforcement agents.
Date of Loss: July 19, 2007
Size of Loss: Unknown
Affected Individuals: Disney Movie Club customers
Geographic Focus: U.S.
Data contained: Credit card information including names, addresses, credit card numbers and expiration dates
Additional Notes:: Disney sent out a letter urging potential victims to contact the financial institutions that issued their credit cards if they had any questions regarding their accounts. But it did not mention any free credit monitoring services, an option many companies have offered in similar situations.
Additional Information: Computerworld