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2007: A Year of Record Data Breaches
By Baselinemag
2008-02-06
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2007: A Year of Record Data Breaches (
Page 1 of 6 ) See the data behind the substantial rise in identity theft and data breaches from 2007—a record year.Since the term identity theft was coined, the number of recorded data breaches and compromises has steadily risen in both volume and severity. The following is an accounting of known data breaches and record compromises for 2007, which for the time-being will go down in the annals as a
record year. The original data was supplied by the Identity Theft Resource Center and has been reconfigured by Baseline's editorial staff.
The data in this article has the following information:
TOP 25 DATA BREACHES OF 2007
The following companies and government agencies
suffered the worst data breaches of last year, allowing the compromise
of tens of millions of records that included a combination of Social Security
numbers, credit card data and personal identifying information.
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1 | TJX | Retail | 94,000,000 | |
2 | Dai Nippon
Printing Company | Services | 8,637,405 | |
3 | Fidelity National Information Services/Certegy Check | Financial | 8,500,000 | |
4 | Georgia Department of
Health/Affiliated Computer | State Government | 2,900,000 | |
5 | Department of Veteran Affairs | Federal Government | 2,000,000 | |
6 | Department of Veteran Affairs | Federal Government | 1,800,000 | |
7 | Chicago Board of Elections | Local Government | 1,300,000 | |
8 | SAIC | Technology | 867,000 | |
9 | Gap | Retail | 800,000 | |
10 | Ohio State Employees | State Government | 635,000 | |
11 | Massachusetts Division of
Professional Licensures | State Government | 450,000 | |
12 | California Public Employees
Retirement System | State Government | 445,000 | |
13 | Davison County Election Commission | Local Government | 337,000 | |
15 | Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation | State Government | 300,000 | |
15 | New York City Financial
Services Agency | Local Government | 280,000 | |
16 | Memorial Blood Centers | Health Care | 268,000 | |
17 | Los Angeles County Child
Support Services | Local Government | 243,000 | |
18 |
Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement
Officers | State Government | 229,000 | |
19 | West Virginia Public Employees
Insurance Agency | State Government | 200,000 | |
20 | Community College of South Nevada | Higher Education | 197,000 | |
21 | Neiman Marcus Group | Retail | 160,000 | |
22 | Iowa Department of Education | State Government | 160,000 | |
23 | Administaff | Services | 159,000 | |
24 | Georgia Department of
Human Resources | State Government | 140,000 | |
25 | St Mary's Hospital (Md) | Health Care | 135,000 |
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| Source: Identity Theft Resource Center |
TOTAL RECORDS125,142,405 |
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