List Toppers of Data Breaches 2
By Baselinemag | Posted 2008-02-06
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See the data behind the substantial rise in identity theft and data breaches from 2007—a record year.
| LIST TOPPERS The following are the lists of the top data breaches of 2007 within each of the major verticals. |
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| credit | ||||
| Financial Services | ||||
| Fidelity National Information Services/ Certegy Check |
8,500,000 | Internal data theft (digital) | ||
| Money Gram International | 79,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| MoneyGram | 79,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| JPMorgan/Chase | 47,000 | Lost storage media | ||
| Merrill Lynch | 33,000 | Stolen computer(s) | ||
| Western Union | 20,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| New Horizons Community Credit Union | 9,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Jax Federal Credit Union | 7,500 | Unsecure data transfer | ||
| ABN Amro Mortgage Group/Citigroup | 5,208 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| American Education Services | 5,184 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Health Care | ||||
| Memorial Blood Centers | 268,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| St. Mary's Hospital | 135,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center of NY | 100,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| Pathology Group of the Mid-South | 75,000 | Stolen computer(s) | ||
| TennCare/AmeriChoice | 67,000 | Lost storage media | ||
| Johns Hopkins Hospital | 52,000 | Lost storage media | ||
| St. Vincent Hospital/Verus | 51,000 | Network security lapse | ||
| Sutter Lakeside Hospital | 45,000 | Missing computer/laptop | ||
| West Penn Allegheny Health System | 42,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Group Health Cooperative Health Care Systems |
31,000 | Missing computer/laptop | ||
| BUSINESS AND CONSUMER SERVICES | ||||
| Dai Nippon Printing Company | 8,637,405 | Internal data theft (digital) | ||
| Administaff | 159,000 | Missing computer/laptop | ||
| Securitas Security Services | 100,000 | Stolen Computer(s) | ||
| Tax Service Plus | 4000 | Stolen Computer(s) | ||
| CTS Tax Services | 800 | Stolen Computer(s) | ||
| Technology & Telecommunications | ||||
| SAIC | 867,000 | Unsecure data transfer | ||
| Kingston Technology | 27,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| ADC Telecommunications | 2,600 | Stolen computer(s) | ||
| Mercury Interactive (HP) | 1,425 | Missing/lost laptop | ||
| Palm | 679 | External hacker breach | ||
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