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ID theft hits more than 3 million college students
Explore Article Dollars & Sense (Mar 30 2010)
More than 3.3 million college students may have been victimized by a computer data theft at a Minnesota company that handles federal student loans.
Comment on Article Mentions: TransUnion Ecmc Minnesota
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Names, Social Security numbers and health information of 6,000 may be on lost laptop
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Dec 1 2008)
United States Army data loss incident circa 2008-12-02 -
Thomaston watching for ID theft after mistake
Explore Article The Republican (Jul 27 2010)
The town accidentally released old records containing the Social Security numbers of volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers two months ago... -
Aetna Apologizes For Mislaid Files
Explore Article Insurance Networking News (Jul 7 2010)
Some spring cleaning by Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna Inc. has resulted in a serious data breach for the health insurer. Aetna has acknowledged that paper files containing personal information, including name, address, Social Security number and date of birth, were inadvertently left in a file cabinet the company was disposing of as it moved...Comment on Article Mentions: Hartford Aetna Pennsylvania
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Medical diagnoses for 130,000 people lost from stolen CD
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Jul 1 2010)
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center data loss incident circa 2010-06-29Comment on Article Mentions: Ssn Naa NO/UNKNOWN Data Recovered
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Unknown incident exposes an unknown number of names and Social Security numbers
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Dec 6 2009)
Lockheed Martin Corp data loss incident circa 2009-11-12 -
Stolen laptop contains names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers of "roughly 50"
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Mar 6 2009)
Federal Emergency Management Agency data loss incident circa 2009-03-06Comment on Article Mentions: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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BU reports data breach of 400 ROTC members
Explore Article Boston.com (Aug 24 2009)
The Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of ROTC members, including more than 400 from Boston University, have been in jeopardy for nearly one year after it was discovered that someone affiliated with ROTC at BU had installed a file transfer program onto a military server without permission, university administra...Comment on Article Mentions: Globe Newspaper Company Massachusetts Martha Coakley
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Inadvertant disclosure of client information to another client
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Feb 1 2009)
MassMutual Financial Group data loss incident circa 2009-01-26 -
Customers alerted to BlueCross data breach
Explore Article tmcnet.com (Jan 11 2010)
Customers of Chattanooga-based insurer BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee slowly are being notified by mail of a potential breach of their personal information. This week, BCBS will provide updated data to the public on exactly how many customers were exposed when 57 hard drives were pilfered in October from a storage closet at the insurer's...Comment on Article Mentions: Tennessee BlueCross BlueShield
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Computer with patient data stolen from Jefferson
Explore Article philly.com (Jul 30 2010)
A laptop computer with health and personal information on 21,000 patients was stolen from an office at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia in June. The patients whose unencrypted records were on the password-protected laptop were notified last Friday of the theft in a letter from hospital president Thomas J. Lewis.Comment on Article Mentions: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Kroll Philadelphia
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UWMC patient financial information compromised
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Mar 6 2010)
University of Washington Med Ctr. data loss incident circa 2010-03-02 -
Personal information including Social Security numbers of about 450 in hacked database
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Jan 11 2009)
University of Rochester data loss incident circa 2009-01-11 -
Server containing personal information of about 9,000 compromised by virus
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Dec 5 2009)
Eastern Illinois University data loss incident circa 2009-12-04 -
Computer file with personal data of 29,500 Kaiser employees seized from person
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Feb 6 2009)
Kaiser Permanente data loss incident circa 2009-02-06








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