Data Loss Source:   General Electric
Date of Loss:  September, 2006
Size of Loss: More than 50,000 files
Affected Individuals:   Employees of GE
Geographic Focus:  Nationwide
Data contained:  Information is not clear – but it looks damaging
Additional Notes:  Laptop stolen from hotel room
Additional Information:  Why does a traveling laptop have the data for 50,000+ employees on it?  News

Data Loss Source: US Department of Commerce (mostly Census Bureau)
Date of Loss: 5 year period to current (2006)
Size of Loss: 1138 Laptops
Affected Individuals: Seems like everyone…
Geographic Focus: All over the USA
Data contained: various information including loan package details for Katrina victims, DoB, SSN, addresses, etc.
Additional Notes:

• 672 missing laptops, of which 246 contained some degree of personal data;
• 107 of these laptops were fully encrypted;
• 139 were either partially encrypted or had no encryption;
• of the missing laptops involving PII, almost half of the unaccounted laptops were stolen (104), often from employees’ vehicles, and another 113 were not returned from former employees; and
• 46 thumbdrives, all of which were fully encrypted and protected by systemic safeguards.

Additional Information: Website for Dept. of Commerce

Data Loss Source:   DePaul Medical Center, Radiation Therapy Dept
Date of Loss:  August & September 2006
Size of Loss: More than 100 files
Affected Individuals:  Patients of DePaul
Geographic Focus:  Norfolk, VA
Data contained: Names, date of birth, treatment information, and some SSNs.
Additional Notes:  The data was compromised from two stolen computers. nly one of the computers was password protected.
“In the wrong hands, that could spell trouble for dozens of patients already fighting cancer.”
Additional Information:   News

Data Loss Source:   Life is Good
Date of Loss:  September 2006
Size of Loss: 9,250 files
Affected Individuals:   Customers of Life is Good
Geographic Focus:  Massachusetts
Data contained:  Credit card numbers
Additional Notes: Hackers accessed the retailer’s database containing customer’s credit card numbers. The company said no other personal information was in the database.
Additional Information:   News, lifeisgood.com

Data Loss Source:   City of Savannah, Georgia
Date of Loss:  September 2006
Size of Loss:  8800 files
Affected Individuals: Individuals who were caught by the “Red Light Camera Enforcement Program”
Geographic Focus:  Savannah, Georgia
Data contained: name, address, driver’s license number, vehicle identification number, and SSNs of those individuals whose driver’s license number is still the SSN.
Additional Notes:  Information kept on a server was accessed by internet search engines. Confidential vehicle registration information was inadvertently exposed. (for approx. 6 months)
Additional Information:   City of Savannah has a data sheet here