Data Loss Source:  Posted on county website
Date of Loss:  October 2006
Size of Loss: Unknown
Affected Individuals:  If Cherokee County Georgia has your records – you’re hosed.
Geographic Focus:  Cherokee County, Georgia
Data contained:  Anything they have including SSNs
Additional Notes:  “I’m required by law not to alter the document and by law I cannot alter the document,” said Cherokee County Clerk of Courts, Patty Baker.

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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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Data Loss Source:   Stolen Laptop
Date of Loss:  October 9, 2006
Size of Loss: Not released
Affected Individuals: Anyone with a 401K
Geographic Focus:  Probably Georgia-based companies
Data contained:  personal data
Additional Notes:  Hancock is not being very frthcoming about what the data was, how many individuals may have been exposed, etc.
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Data Loss Source:  Stolen Laptop
Date of Loss:  Sept 18, 2006
Size of Loss: Unknown
Affected Individuals:   Members of the Ontario Science Centre
Geographic Focus:  Ontario, Canada
Data contained:  Names, addresses and credit card data
Additional Notes:  a message on its voicemail system said only people who received letters with a four- or five-digit number at the bottom had their credit card numbers compromised.
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Data Loss Source: Compact disks left at a store while employee shopped
Date of Loss: July 28, 2006
Size of Loss: 260,000 files
Affected Individuals: Patients of Sisters of St. Francis Health Services-owned hospitals, and about 6,200 employees, board members and physicians
Geographic Focus: Indiana and Illinois
Data contained: names and Social Security numbers
Additional Notes: An outside contractor working with the Mishawaka-based hospital system, which operates hospitals in Indianapolis and elsewhere in Indiana, inadvertently left compact discs containing the confidential patient-billing information in a new computer bag she purchased but later returned to a store.

In this case, a Presbyterian minister who purchased the bag containing the CDs promptly notified St. Francis.

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