Incident Highlight - Data Loss Mail List Has Moved!
The final touches have been put on the transition of the Data Loss Mail List to DataLossDB.org. Extra special thanks to Strange for helping make this happen! If there are any questions, comments, concerns, or problems, please let us know.
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Beginning July 15, 2008, Open Security Foundation is the new host of DataLossDB, which will serve as a community-driven project for information about data breaches that involve personally identifying information.
Data Loss is a not-for-profit mail list that covers topics such as news releases regarding large-scale personal data loss and personal data theft incidents. Discussion about incidents, indictments, legislation, and recovery of lost or stolen personal data is encouraged. Posts and replies containing endorsements for commercial products and/or services, on or off list, are strongly discouraged by list moderators.
Currently, mail list traffic is considered low to moderate, depending on current events.
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About OSF Data Loss
DataLossDB, formerly the Attrition.org Data Loss Database Open Source, is an research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide. The effort is now a community one, with the move to OSF, and relies on the contributions of users like you to grow and prune the database.
Latest Incidents
| records | date | organizations |
|---|---|---|
| 11,000,000 | 2008-09-06 | GS Caltex |
| 5,000 | 2008-09-06 | National Offender Management Service |
| 163 | 2008-09-05 | East Burke (Morganton, NC) High School |
| 245 | 2008-09-02 | Clarkson University |
| 4,259 | 2008-08-28 | Reynoldsburg (Ohio) City School District |
| 13,000 | 2008-08-28 | Louisiana Real Estate Commission |
| 13,000 | 2008-08-27 | Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund |
| 86 | 2008-08-27 | Kansas State University |
| 2,845 | 2008-08-26 | Pennsylvania Public Welfare Department |
| 2,600 | 2008-08-26 | Prince William County Public Schools |
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Largest Incidents
| records | date | organizations |
|---|---|---|
| 94,000,000 | 2007-01-17 | TJX Companies Inc. |
| 40,000,000 | 2005-06-19 | CardSystems, Visa, MasterCard, American Express |
| 30,000,000 | 2004-06-24 | America Online |
| 26,500,000 | 2006-05-22 | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
| 25,000,000 | 2007-11-20 | HM Revenue and Customs, TNT |
| 12,500,000 | 2008-05-07 | Archive Systems Inc, Bank of New York Mellon |
| 11,000,000 | 2008-09-06 | GS Caltex |
| 8,637,405 | 2007-03-12 | Dai Nippon Printing Company |
| 8,500,000 | 2007-07-03 | Certegy Check Services Inc, Fidelity National Information Services |
| 6,300,000 | 2007-09-14 | TD Ameritrade |