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SUMMARY

Personal information of 380,000 social welfare recipients lost on a stolen laptop
Records	380,000
Record Types	SSN NAA MISC DOB
Breach Type	Stolen Laptop
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	Anonymous

Date	Event
2007-04-01	Incident Occurred
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2008-08-01	Organization Reports Incident
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records	date	organizations
243,000	2007-03-29	Los Angeles County Child Support Services
280,000	2007-08-23	New York City Financial Information Services Agency
337,000	2007-12-28	Davidson County Election Commission
605,767	2008-01-18	United Kingdom Ministry of Defence

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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$22,800,000.00

Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.