| TOP 25 DATA BREACHES OF 2007 The following companies and government agenciessuffered the worst data breaches of last year, allowing the compromiseof tens of millions of records that included a combination of Social Securitynumbers, credit card data and personal identifying information. | |||
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| Organization | Sector | Effected Records | |
1 | TJX | Retail | 94,000,000 |
2 | Dai NipponPrinting 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 | 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 |
TOTALRECORDS 125,007,405 | |||
