TrustedIDRecent Data Breaches- Is Your Identity At Risk?
State Street Corp : 45,500 Records Lost
Date Reported: 05/29/2008:
Computer equipment containing personal information on more than 45,000 customers and employees of a State Street unit was stolen five months ago, the company said. The company, a Boston-based provider of financial services to institutional investors, said 5,500 employees and 40,000 customers of Investors Financial Services, which it acquired last year, were affected. The personal information included names, addresses and social security numbers. More info...
University of California San Francisco: 3,569 Records Lost
Date Reported: 05/28/2008:
The University of California San Francisco is alerting a group of patients that it has discovered a security breach involving a computer that held personal patient information. During the investigation, UCSF determined that an unauthorized movie-sharing program had been installed on this one computer on or about December 2, 2007, by an unknown individual. Installation of this program required high-level system access, which is why the incident is considered a security breach. More info...
Dave & Buster's : 5,000 Records Lost
Date Reported: 05/22/2008:
Three men were charged Monday with hacking into a national restaurant chain's computerized cash registers and stealing credit card information from customers. Eleven Dave & Buster's restaurants at various locations around the United States were hit in the scheme, including one in Islandia, on Long Island, where information was stolen on 5,000 credit and debit cards, causing at least $600,000 in losses, federal prosecutors said. More info...
Downingtown West High School: Student Hacker Stole Personal Info Of 55,000
Date Reported: 05/22/2008:
A Chester County teenager is accused of hacking into his high school's computer system and stealing personal information from thousands of people. Police said a 15-year-old Downingtown West High School student, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, accessed private information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, of more than 50,000 people.More info...
HealthSpring: Laptop Stolen from Employee Affects 9,000 Members
Date Reported: 05/22/2008:
Nashville-based managed care company HealthSpring Inc. said Wednesday a laptop computer containing personal information of about 450
state residents was stolen in March. The laptop, believed to contain names, dates of birth and social security numbers of about 9,000 individuals, was stolen from a HealthSpring employee's locked car on March 30 in Houston, the company said. More info...
Former NYU Information Exposed at Duke University
Date Reported: 05/20/2008:
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is notifying 273 former New York University students that some of their personal information was inadvertently accessible by targeted Internet searches between July 2007 and April 2008. More info...
Spring ISD Mobile Devices & Personal Information from Students Stolen
Date Reported: 05/16/2008:
Spring ISD has been informing the parents of about 8,000 students of an incident that occurred in the evening on Wednesday, May 14 that involves the students’ personal information. The Spring ISD testing coordinator’s car was broken into while she was making a stop at a business on her way home from work that evening and a Spring ISD laptop computer and an external flash drive were stolen.
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70,000 Oklahoma State University Parking Service Records Hacked
Date Reported: 05/14/2008:
Oklahoma State University has discovered that a server under the control of OSU Parking and Transit Services had been accessed from another country without authorization. The database contained confidential information, specifically the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of OSU faculty, staff and students who had purchased a parking permit between July 2002 and March 2008. More info...
Two students access 5,213 Dominican University files
Date Reported: 05/8/2008:
Dominican University students and alumni were notified this week of a breach in security that could have put their personal information at risk. The university said two students were able to access 5,213 records on a staff network storage area in April. The files were three spreadsheets from 2003, 2005 and 2007. More info...
Pfizer : 13,000 Records Lost
Disclosure Date: 05/12/2008:
A data breach at Pfizer has been reported. The information available at this time indicates that 13,000 records were lost. A laptop stolen from a Pfizer contractor's locked home on February 7, 2008 unfortunately contained some of your personal information along with personal information belonging to approximately 13,000 present and former Pfizer employees and other individuals providing services to Pfizer. More info...
Las Cruces Public Schools - Lac Cruces, NM
Date Reported: 05/07/2008:
The Las Cruces Public Schools has announced that confidential student and staff information, including some personal identifying data, was unintentionally posted on the Internet. Immediately upon learning that the data was posted, the district took steps to remove the data from the Internet site where it was found, said Superintendent Stan Rounds. More info...
East Hempfield Township, PA Doctor's Office
Occurrence Date: 05/05/2008:
A laptop stolen from a doctors office containing social security numbers and other information was stolen recently in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. 12,000 patients and staff were listed on the computer that was stolen on April 17 More info...
Statin Island University Hospital
Occurrence Date: 05/01/2008:
A data breach at Staten Island University Hospital has been reported. The information available at this time indicates that 88,000 records were lost. Please stand by for further updates on this breach as news becomes available. More info...
LendingTree
Occurrence Date: 04/22/2008
LendingTree's customer information was accessed illegally by former employees handing out passwords, exposing the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of an unknown amount of customers. The thieves gained access to loan request forms that were filed between October 2006 and the beginning of 2008. The police are investigating the situation, and, according to the letter sent out, LendingTree has "brought lawsuits against those involved." More info...
University of Miami
Occurrence Date: 04/17/2008
Computer tapes stolen from the University of Miami (UM) may have exposed 47,000 patients to Identity theft. The tapes included information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and personal health records of patients who visited a UM facility since January 1, 1999. More info...
Connecticut State University System, Buffalo State College, Northwest Missouri State University
Occurrence Date: 04/17/2008
The personal information of 16,000 students from Buffalo State College; 3,400 from Connecticut State University System; and 1,100 from Northwest Missouri State University may be exposed because a laptop was stolen from SunGuard Higher Education, a vendor maintaining the information for all three universities. The names and Social Security numbers of these students were on file and password-protected, but not encrypted. More info...
University of Toledo
Occurrence Date: 04/13/2008
A payroll file containing the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of 6,500 employees of the University of Toledo in Ohio was accidentally moved to a server where all employees had access to the information. The information was removed as soon as it was detected, and letters sent out to those it possibly affected. More info...