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SUMMARY

Data exposed for about 55,200 people - Christopher Andrew Phillips sentenced September 2005
Records	55,200
Record Types	SSN EMA
Breach Type	Hack
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	University of Texas at Austin
Other Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	Anonymous

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SIMILAR INCIDENTS

records	date	organizations
36,000	2006-07-06	University of Tennessee
64,000	2006-09-15	University of Texas at San Antonio
70,000	2006-10-12	Brock University
35,000	2006-12-12	University of Texas at Dallas

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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$3,312,000.00

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.

COMMENTS

by Anonymous on 2009-05-20 (10 months ago)

OSF - many thanks for the heavy lifting with respect to tracking the global loss of data. As more and more countries begin to enact databreach notification requirements, I believe your database will evolve to global community's single-source of truth on dataloss.

Keep up the excellent work.

With warm regards,
Christopher Burgess
Senior Security Advisor, Cisco
Member - SC Magazine Editorial Advisory Board

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