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SUMMARY

Disabled security systems delay discovery of breach involving Social Security numbers and other sensitive information of over 13,000
Records 13,750
Record Types SSN NAA
Breach Type Hack
Data Family Electronic
Source Outside
Organization ChoicePoint
Other Affected/Involved Organizations Reed Elsevier
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: d2d

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2008-04-01 Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2009-10-20 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

SIMILAR INCIDENTS

recordsdateorganizations
15,700 2000-11-14 Western Union
15,000 2005-04-12 Eastern National, National Park Service
32,000 2006-04-12 Ross-Simons
34,000 2006-05-31 VyStar Credit Union

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: United States
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $825,000.00
  1. 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.

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