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SUMMARY

Lost backup tape contains information including names, Social Security numbers, and financial information of 21000
Records	21,000
Record Types	SSN NAA FIN
Breach Type	Lost Tape
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Harvard Law School
Other Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	Lyger

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2008-10-22	Incident Discovered By Organization
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2008-11-06	Organization Reports Incident
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2008-11-04	Organization Mails Notifications
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MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
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REFERENCES

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/06/clients_data_missing_harvard_law_warns/ [archive]

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PRIMARY SOURCES

Primary Source ID: 2149

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Massachusetts Data Breach Notifiction : Harvard Law School - Lost backup tape contained personal information.
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
20081105_Harvard.pdf	Massachusetts Attorney General	d2d	1192
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
8311	2008-11-05	2009-08-08	02 Nov 18:06
Excerpt
ififiillll EEE . HARVARD UNIVERSITY Office of the General Counsel Peter Katz Holyoke Center, Suite 980 Uni·uerri1yAttarney 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 021388834 peter_katz@harv...

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Breach Types:

Disposal Computer | Disposal Document | Disposal Tape | Disposal Drive
Email | Fraud Se | Hack | Lost Computer
Lost Document | Lost Drive | Lost Laptop | Lost Media
Lost Tape | Missing Laptop | Snail Mail | Stolen Computer
Stolen Document | Stolen Drive | Stolen Laptop | Stolen Media
Stolen Tape | Unknown | Virus | Web