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SUMMARY

1,155 employees' Social Security numbers and financial info sent overseas by Zeus virus
Records	1,155
Record Types	SSN NAA FIN
Breach Type	Virus
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	Dissent

Date	Event
2011-02-15	Incident Occurred
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2011-02-23	Incident Discovered By Organization
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2011-03-11	Organization Reports Incident
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2011-03-11	Organization Mails Notifications
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None. Add Data	Records Recovered
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None. Add Data	Arrest Made
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records	date	organizations
2,500	2006-02-01	University of Colorado CO Springs
1,000	2009-03-17	Penn State University
2,300	2008-03-04	Cornell University
900	2010-02-17	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Address: Blacksburg, VA, USA
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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$69,300.00

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.