Data Loss Source: Monster.com suffered a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers. Hackers broke into the U.S. online recruitment site’s password-protected resume library using credentials that Monster Worldwide said were stolen from its clients.
Date of Loss:August 17, 2007
Size of Loss: 1.3 million
Affected Individuals: Online jobseekers
Geographic Focus: Virtual
Data contained: The information stolen was limited to names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and no other details, including bank account numbers, were uploaded.
Additional Notes:: Monster put a notice on its Web site, www.monster.com , warning users they might be the target of e-mail scams.
Additional Information : FOX News

Data Loss Source: Someone broke into the second floor office of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists and stole a safe. The director of the agency says the safe contains the personal information of thousands of hair stylists.
Date of Loss:August 20, 2007
Size of Loss: Thousands
Affected Individuals: Every barber and cosmetologist licensed in the state of West Virginia since 1986.
Geographic Focus: West Virginia
Data contained: Personal information
Additional Notes:: The board is in the process of notifying potential victims.
Additional Information : State Journal

Data Loss Source: In its second disclosure of a data breach in as many months, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer revealed that laptops containing personal data on 950 contractors for Pfizer were stolen from the car of employees for outside contracting firm Axia.
Date of Loss:June 14, 2007
Size of Loss: 950
Affected Individuals: Pfizer contractors
Geographic Focus: U.S.
Data contained: The missing laptops contained names, complete home and business addresses, land and cellular telephone numbers, and Social Security numbers.
Additional Notes:: The theft took place on May 31, but Axia did not inform Pfizer until June 14. The Axia data breach follows Pfizer’s disclosure that an employee had accidentally shared data on 17,000 current and former Pfizer workers over a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Additional Information : ConsumerAffairs.com

Data Loss Source: Military support contractor SAIC said Friday the personal information of more than half a million people may have been compromised when the company failed to encrypt the data before transmitting it over the Internet.
Date of Loss:August 12, 2007
Size of Loss: 580,000
Affected Individuals: Military personnel and their families
Geographic Focus: U.S.
Data contained: The information included names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and health information.
Additional Notes:: The company said the problem occurred when it transmitted information from 580,000 households of military personnel and their family members over the Internet in an unencrypted form. A household may represent more than one person, the company said. The data was stored on a single, nonsecure server at an SAIC location.
Additional Information : Business Week

Data Loss Source: The personal data of 8.5 million people, including Banner Bank customers, was sold to direct marketers. An employee of Certegy Check Services Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla., subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services of Jacksonville, Fla., wrongfully removed and sold the consumer information to a data broker, according to Fidelity. The data broker, in turn, sold a subset of the data to a limited number of direct-marketing organizations.
Date of Loss:August 11, 2007
Size of Loss: 8.5 million
Affected Individuals: Bank customers
Geographic Focus: U.S.
Data contained: Names, addresses, telephone numbers, account numbers and expiration dates were included in the breach.
Additional Notes:: Banner Bank credit card customers were among the estimated 8.5 million consumers whose personal information was sold in a data breach announced last month by the bank’s credit card processor, Fidelity National Information Services.
Additional Information : Union-Bulletin