Data Loss Source: The Dental Network—a dental HMO owned by CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield—discovered it had accidentally revealed personal data and Social Security numbers online for about 75,000 of its customers.
Date of Loss: March 19, 2008
Size of Loss : 75,000
Affected Individuals: Members
Geographic Focus: New Hampshire
Data contained: Names, Social Security numbers, addresses and dates of birth.
Additional Notes: The company says that, to its knowledge, no one has misused the information.
Additional Information: The Consumerist

Data Loss Source: An estimated 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from the Hannaford Bros. and Sweetbay supermarket chains.
Date of Loss: March 17, 2008
Size of Loss : 4.2 million
Affected Individuals: Customers
Geographic Focus: Portland, ME
Data contained: The stolen data was limited to credit and debit card numbers.
Additional Notes: The company is currently aware of about 1,800 cases of reported fraud related to the security breach. Credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authorization transmission process, but no personal information was divulged.
Additional Information: InformationWeek

Data Loss Source:A laptop containing sensitive and unencrypted personal data on current and former employees of Agilent Technologies was stolen from the car of an Agilent vendor.
Date of Loss: March 22, 2008
Size of Loss : 51,000
Affected Individuals: Employees
Geographic Focus: Santa Clara, CA
Data contained: The data includes employee names, Social Security numbers, home addresses and details of stock options and other stock-related awards.
Additional Notes: Agilent send current and former employees to inform them that some of their personal and financial information may have been compromised.
Additional Information: ComputerWorld

Data Loss Source: A Atlantic Technical High School senior hacked into a district computer and collected Social Security numbers and addresses of district employees.
Date of Loss: March 26, 2008
Size of Loss : 35,000
Affected Individuals: Employees
Geographic Focus: Coconut Creek, FL
Data contained: The data includes Social Security numbers and addresses
Additional Information: Miami Herald

Data Loss Source: HealthNow New York has alerted 40,000 members that they may be at risk for identity theft, after a former employee’s laptop computer went missing with confidential information several months ago.
Date of Loss: March 14, 2008
Size of Loss : 40,000
Affected Individuals: HealthNowMembers
Geographic Focus: Western and Northeastern New York
Data contained: Based on the company’s investigation, the potential information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, employer group names, and health insurance identifier numbers
Additional Notes: The Buffalo-based parent of Blue- Cross BlueShield of Western New York warned affected customers that they may be at risk of identity theft, even though officials are still not certain what, if anything, was on the computer.
Additional Information: The Buffalo News