Data Loss Source: Records of students and staff including Social Security numbers, names, and addresses exposed on the Web by the Louisiana Board of Regents. In all, more than 80,000 names and Social Security numbers were accessible for perhaps as long as two years on an internal Internet site.
Date of Loss: July 17, 2007
Size of Loss: 80,000
Affected Individuals: Students and staff of schools in Louisiana
Geographic Focus: Baton Rouge, LA
Data contained: Social Security numbers, names, and addresses
Additional Notes:: The breach was discovered in an unusual way. A law school student in Louisiana, wanted to prove a point about user privacy. He started Googling — and ended up with names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal data on some 80,000 students and employees in the state’s university system.
Additional Information : Forbes

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
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=networking_and_internet&articleId=9027220

Data Loss Source: A computer was stolen from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Education (TCLEOSE), a state agency that licenses police officers.
Date of Loss: May 19, 2007
Size of Loss: 230,000
Affected Individuals: Every licensed peace officer, jailer and telecommunicator in Texas is on the TCLEOSE database.
Geographic Focus: Austin, TX
Data contained: Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and birth dates
Additional Notes:: Productivity Center Incorporated (PCI) is the Houston company that was burglarized.Burglars hit 23 buildings in one area of Houston, stealing several laptop computers from PCI, including one that belonged to the commission.
Additional Information: WFAA.com

Data Loss Source: Hackers accessed a University of Missouri computer database and stole more than 20,000 Social Security numbers.
Date of Loss: May 9, 2007
Size of Loss: 22,396
Affected Individuals: Anyone who worked in the university’s system in 2004 who were also current or former students.
Geographic Focus: Missouri. The university has campuses in Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis.
Data contained: Social Security numbers
Additional Notes:: The hackers used IP addresses from China and Australia to steal the data. There is no evidence that any of the data has been misused.
Additional Information:: SC Magazine

Data Loss Source: Hacked computers
Date of Loss: September 2006
Size of Loss: 230,000 + files
Affected Individuals: Patients/families of Akron Children’s Hospital
Geographic Focus: Akron, OHio
Data contained: sensitive information, including Social Security numbers and bank account records.
Additional Notes: “The hospital says its security consultants initially didn’t think there was a major problem.” Yeah, that’s what some “experts” thought….

“The hospital began notifying the families on Wednesday (10/25/2006) — seven weeks after the breach was discovered — ”
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