2007: A Year of Record Data Breaches

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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OrganizationSectorAffected Records
1
TJXRetail94,000,000
2
Dai Nippon Printing CompanyServices8,637,405
3
Fidelity National Information Services/Certegy CheckFinancial8,500,000
4
Georgia Department of
Health/Affiliated Computer
State Government2,900,000
5
Department of Veteran AffairsFederal Government2,000,000
6
Department of Veteran AffairsFederal Government1,800,000
7
Chicago Board of ElectionsLocal Government1,300,000
8
SAICTechnology867,000
9
GapRetail800,000
10
Ohio State EmployeesState Government635,000
11
Massachusetts Division of
Professional Licensures
State Government450,000
12
California Public Employees
Retirement System
State Government445,000
13
Davison County Election CommissionLocal Government337,000
15
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional RegulationState Government300,000
15
New York City Financial
Services Agency
Local Government280,000
16
Memorial Blood CentersHealth Care268,000
17
Los Angeles County Child
Support Services
Local Government243,000
18

Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement Officers

State Government229,000
19
West Virginia Public Employees
Insurance Agency
State Government200,000
20
Community College of South NevadaHigher Education197,000
21
Neiman Marcus GroupRetail160,000
22
Iowa Department of EducationState Government160,000
23
AdministaffServices159,000
24
Georgia Department of
Human Resources
State Government140,000
25
St Mary’s Hospital (Md)Health Care135,000
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center
TOTAL RECORDS125,142,405