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SUMMARY

Personal info on former and current customers exposed on the Internet in a spreadsheet that contained Social Security numbers
Records 65
Record Types SSN NAA MISC
Breach Type Web
Data Family Electronic
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife)
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? YES
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Dissent

TIMELINE

DateEvent
None. Add Data Incident Occurred
2009-11-01 Incident Discovered By Organization
2010-01-07 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
160 2008-11-03 National Association of Chain Drug Stores Fondation (NACDS)
160 2009-02-10 SemGroup LP
120 2009-05-12 CompuCredit
34 2008-02-05 Putnam Investor Services

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: New York, NY, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $3,900.00
  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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