List Toppers of Data Breaches 3
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 | ||||
| High Education | ||||
| Community College of South Nevada | 197,000 | Malware data leak | ||
| Stony Brook University | 90,000 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| East Carolina University | 65,000 | Network security lapse | ||
| University of California, San Francisco | 46,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Arts and Sciences |
44,998 | External hacker breach | ||
| University of Missouri | 22,396 | External hacker breach | ||
| City University of New York | 20,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| University of Nevada, Reno | 16,000 | Lost storage media | ||
| Ohio State University | 14,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| City College of San Francisco | 11,000 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| Secondary Education | ||||
| Chicago Public Schools/McGladrey & Pullen | 40,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Waco (Texas) Independent School District | 17,400 | External hacker breach | ||
| University of Michigan Clinics | 8,585 | Missing computer/laptop | ||
| Indianapolis Public Schools | 7,500 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| Tennessee Students | 5,247 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| Springfield (Ohio) City Schools | 2,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Jackson (Ohio) Local Schools | 1,800 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| Cedarburg (Wisconsin) High School | 900 | External hacker breach | ||
| Clarksville-Montgomery County (Tennessee) Schools |
633 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| Greenville County (S.C.) School District | 500 | Malware Data Leak | ||
| Retail | ||||
| TJX | 94,000,000 | External hacker breach | ||
| Gap | 800,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Neiman Marcus Group | 160,000 | Stolen computer(s) | ||
| Gander Mountain Company | 112,000 | Stolen computer(s) | ||
| Milwaukee PC | 65,000 | Erroneous Web post | ||
| Johnny's Selected Seeds | 11,500 | External hacker breach | ||
| The Home Depot | 10,000 | Stolen laptop(s) | ||
| Voxant | 4,500 | External hacker breach | ||
| KimsCrafts | 4,500 | External hacker breach | ||
| eBay | 1,200 | External hacker breach | ||
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