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SUMMARY

Three stolen laptops contained Social Security numbers of 1400 students and staff
Records	1,448
Record Types	SSN NAA
Breach Type	Stolen Laptop
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Columbia University
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	kirniki

Date	Event
2010-01-18	Incident Occurred
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2010-01-31	Organization Reports Incident
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records	date	organizations
1,400	2005-06-23	Kent State University
3,851	2005-08-27	ChartOne, Inc., University of Florida
3,800	2005-11-01	University of Tennessee Med. Ctr.
1,600	2006-01-24	University of Washington Medical Center

Address: New York, NY, USA
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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$86,880.00

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.

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New Hampshire breach notification: Columbia University - 3 stolen laptops exposed personal information. 1 NH resident affected.
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
columbia_university.pdf	New Hampshire Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau	kirniki	<a href='/incidents/show/2523'>2523</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
1	2010-02-01	2010-02-05	12 Aug 23:44
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7 §§»‘ January 5, 2010 The Honorabte tyfichaei A. Detaney 33 Clapitot Street Concord, NH 03301 Fax; {603) E?1-21 10 Dear iytr. rtttorney Generai; The purpose of this ietter is to inform you of a secu...