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SUMMARY

1.8 million Social Security numbers found on home computer of former contractor
Records	1,800,000
Record Types	SSN
Breach Type	Fraud Se
Data Family	Unknown
Source	Inside - Malicious
Organization	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Other Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	YES
Arrest?	YES
Submitted By:	Anonymous

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Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$108,000,000.00

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.