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
- Chief Causes of Data Breaches
- List Toppers By Vertical
- Affected Records By Industry
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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Organization | Sector | Affected Records | |||
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 | 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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