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SUMMARY

4,000 employees' Social Security numbers and other payroll information exposed when sent via unencrypted email.
Records 4,000
Record Types SSN NAA ACC
Breach Type Email
Data Family Electronic
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization National Business Center
Other Affected/Involved Organizations Securities and Exchange Commission
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Dissent

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2011-05-04 Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2011-05-18 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

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8,400 2006-07-24 New York Department of Homeless Services
2,400 2009-05-11 Washington D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education
8,600 2009-07-16 Johnson County Kansas
2,000 2006-07-28 City of Riverside, California

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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

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Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $240,000.00
  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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