Privacy Breach Analysis
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Date Reference
12/02/2011 Server Security Incident Notification - Virginia Commonwealth University 0.61%
11/28/2011 Monster Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 1.06%
10/27/2011 It Guards the Markets, But What About Itself? - Natasha Singer, New York Times 0.46%
10/20/2011 An Important Message from Sony's Chief Information Security Officer - Sony Group 0.91%
09/23/2011 Nordstrom Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 2.28%
09/02/2011 Thirty-One Gifts Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.61%
07/01/2011 Southern New Hampshire Health System Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 1.06%
06/24/2011 LexisNexis Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 3.34%
06/23/2011 Huge Data Breach Puts 200,000 at Risk - Matt Liebowitz, Staff Writer, Security News Daily 1.82%
06/23/2011 Exploited Hotmail Bug Stole Email Without Warning - Dan Goodin, The Register 1.06%
06/22/2011 Bank of America Breach: A Big Scary Story - Tracy Kitten, Managing Editor, Bank Info Security 3.95%
06/20/2011 IMF Suffers Major Sophisticated Data Breach - Phil Muncaster, V3 1.82%
06/13/2011 Citi Says Hackers Access Bank Card Data - Reuters 0.91%
06/09/2011 Lockheed Network Hit by Major Disruption - Andrea Shalal-Esa and Jim Finkle, Reuters 1.22%
06/03/2011 Insider Data Breach Costs Bank of America $10 Million - infosecurity 4.41%
05/30/2011 Jackson National Life Insurance Company Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.46%
05/27/2011 Email Exposed 4,000 Securities and Exchange Commission Employees - Shan Li, Los Angeles Times 3.04%
05/25/2011 Merlin Information Services Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 1.06%
05/24/2011 Speare Memorial Hospital Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 2.13%
05/23/2011 Square Enix Confirms Website Hack - Square Enix 1.22%
05/19/2011 Michaels Alerts Customers of Potential Debit and Credit Card Fraud - Michaels 1.52%
05/17/2011 Facebook Security Flaw Exposed User Accounts - Geoffrey Fowler, Wall Street Journal 1.98%
05/12/2011 Passwords at Risk - Breach Suspected at Password Storage Provider LastPass - Tracy Kitten, Bank Info Security 1.52%
05/02/2011 Texas Spends $1.8 Million on Data Breach as Lawsuit Looms - Fahmida Y Rashid, eWeek 5.62%
05/02/2011 Sony Playstation Network Data Breach Compromises 77 Million User Accounts - Fahmida Y Rashid, eWeek 3.80%
04/14/2011 Insurance Company Punished for Improper Disposal of Documents - WREX.com 1.82%
04/13/2011 Health Net, Inc. Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 3.19%
02/17/2011 Marriott Vacation Club Notification of Loss of Personal Information - AG of New Hampshire 3.19%
02/16/2011 DHHS Alerts Clients of Missing Records 3.04%
02/04/2011 Ingenix Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 3.65%
01/31/2011 Twin America LLC Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 2.43%
01/31/2011 Trapster.com Breach Notification 1.67%
01/28/2011 Tulane University Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.91%
01/25/2011 Seacoast Radiology, PA Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.30%
01/17/2011 Honda Warns Owners About Data Hacking - Dan Gearino, The Columbus Dispatch 0.76%
01/14/2011 Geisinger Health Systems Breach Notification 0.61%
01/13/2011 VA Reports Improper Storage of Patient Data - Federal Times 1.67%
01/04/2011 110,000 Customers of CitySights NY Notified of Credit Card Breach - Databreaches 1.06%
12/29/2010 University of Wisconsin Warns of Major Data Breach - Larry Barrett, InternetNews.com 0.91%
12/28/2010 Genesco Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 1.22%
12/28/2010 HISD: Hacker Gained Access to Personal Data Of All Students, Employees - khou.com 1.06%
12/24/2010 Nine St. Joseph's/Candler Employees Snagged in Medical Breach - Eric Curl, Savannah Morning News 0.76%
12/24/2010 Gawker Revamps Security After Breach - Brian Prince, eWeek.com 0.76%
12/21/2010 Feds Probe "100 Site" Data Breach - McDonald's Silverpopped - Dan Goodin, The Register 0.46%
12/09/2010 Wackenhut Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.91%
12/06/2010 Puerto Rico Breach Affects 400,000 - Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management 0.61%
12/02/2010 Escrow Co Sues Bank Over $440K Cyber Theft - Krebs on Security 0.46%
11/30/2010 Data Breach Costs: AvMed Being Sued For Loss Of Two Laptops - Alertboot Endpoint Security 0.15%
11/04/2010 County Flooded With Laptop Calls - Carol Vaughn, Delmarvanow 0.61%
10/28/2010 Johns Hopkins University Email Attachment Error Exposed Personal Info - DataBreaches.net 0.46%
10/25/2010 Medical Data Breach Said to be Major - Jane M. Von Bergen, The Philadelphia Enquirer 0.30%
10/19/2010 Cardinal Health Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
10/18/2010 TransUnion Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.61%
09/16/2010 Idaho Power Health Plan - Breach Report 0.46%
09/15/2010 Saint Anselm College Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.46%
09/13/2010 Paper Data Breach Hits Four Hospitals - HealthDataManagement.com 0.61%
08/31/2010 Notification of Possible Thomson CompuMark Data Security Breach - Thomson Reuters 0.15%
08/24/2010 Heartland Payment Systems Suffers Second Purported Breach - Ayinde Chase, All Headline News 0.15%
08/16/2010 Aetna Reports Incident - News Release, Aetna 0.46%
08/09/2010 Lincoln National Life Insurance Notifies Over 26,000 Of Breach After User/Pass Distributed In Brochure And On The Web - Databreaches.net 0.30%
08/04/2010 Walsh Pharmacy Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.91%
07/23/2010 New York Hospital Loses Data On 130,000 Via FexEx - Robert McMillan, Bloomberg Businessweek 0.15%
07/09/2010 Personal Data Accessed on Blue Cross Website - Courtney Perkes - OC Register 0.30%
07/09/2010 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority - Letter of Acceptance Waiver and Consent - D.A. Davidson & Co. 0.15%
06/24/2010 AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach - Nick Bilton, NYTimes.com 0.15%
06/23/2010 Brew HaHa Breach No Laughing Matter - Databreaches 0.76%
06/03/2010 Tufts University Notification of Security Breach- Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
06/01/2010 Missing Woodbury Financial USB Contained Client Data - Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
05/21/2010 NM Human Services Department Notifying Medicaid Members About Information Security Breach - New Mexico Human Services Department 0.15%
05/20/2010 Two Data Breaches in Kentucky - Health Data Management.com 0.30%
05/10/2010 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Alerts Patients to Laptop Theft and Data Breach 0.15%
05/05/2010 Open Letter to Customers of Hancock Fabrics - Hancock Fabrics.com 0.15%
05/03/2010 Affinity Health Plan Alerts Public About Potential Security Breach 0.15%
04/23/2010 Lam Research Corporation Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
04/16/2010 MyPilotStore Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
04/09/2010 Griffin Hospital Notifies Patients of Breach of Protected Health Information - Griffinhealth.org 0.15%
03/12/2010 BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee data breach notification - Attorney General of Maryland 0.46%
02/12/2010 Highmark Tells Customers Personal Information Lost - Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 0.15%
02/02/2010 Lincoln Financial Notification Under N.H. Rev. Stat. 359-C.20 - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.61%
01/27/2010 Suffolk Bancorp Thwarts Data Intrusion at Banking Subsidiary - Suffolk Bancorp 0.30%
01/11/2010 Suffolk County National Bank Notification of Information Security Incident - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.30%
01/05/2010 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee Issues Breach Notification for Stolen Hard Drive - Personal Health Information Privacy 0.15%
12/30/2009 HSBC Notification Pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 359 - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
12/16/2009 Health Net Healthcare Data Breach Affects 1.5 million - Robert Westervelt, SearchSecurity.com 0.15%
12/01/2009 Health Net Data Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
11/20/2009 Blue Cross Blue Shield Data Breach Investigated - Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek 0.46%
09/04/2009 Normandeau Associates, Inc. Breach Notification - Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.15%
08/20/2009 New York Life Insurance Company - Notice of a Security Breach - Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.46%
07/23/2009 Experian - Notification of Security Breach - Attorney General of Maryland 1.67%
06/04/2009 Aviva - Notification of Data Security Breach Incident - New Hampshire Attorney General 0.15%
05/28/2009 Man: Toyota Gave Personal Info to Stranger - Eyewitness News 0.15%
05/26/2009 Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. Breach Notification - Attorney General of Maryland 0.15%
05/19/2009 Catalent Pharma Solutions - Data Breach Notification Letter - Attorney General of Maryland 0.15%
05/15/2009 State Farm Insurance Companies Notice of a Breach - Office of the Attorney General of Maryland 0.15%
05/08/2009 LexisNexis Says Its Data Was Used By Fraudsters - Robert McMilliian, Computerworld 0.30%
03/16/2009 Pentel Legal Notice of Potential Data Security Breach - New Hampshire Attorney General 0.15%
03/12/2009 Couple Fed Up Over Medical Fax Flap - Laura Kadechka - 10 Connects 0.15%
01/22/2009 Heartland Data Breach Could Be Bigger than TJX's - Jaikumar Vijayan - Computerworld 0.76%
01/21/2009 Highmark Inc. Breach Notification - Maryland Attorney General 0.15%
01/19/2009 TierraNet Security Breach Notification - Maryland Attorney General 0.30%
12/11/2008 Security Breach Notification: National Association of Chain Drug Stores - Attorney General of Maryland 0.76%
11/07/2008 HealthTexas Provider Network, Part of Baylor Health Care System, Notifies Patients of Laptop Theft - Baylor Health Care System 0.15%
11/05/2008 Shell fingers IT contractor in theft of employee data - Robert McMillan, Computerworld 0.46%
10/02/2008 Human Error To Blame For Grady Data Breach - Craig Schneider - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 0.15%
09/16/2008 CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield - Breach Notification Letter - Attorney General of Maryland 0.15%
07/31/2008 Facebook Bug Leaks Members Birthday Data - R. McMillan - PCW Business Center 0.30%
07/17/2008 Notification of Information Security Incident - WilmerHale - Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire 0.30%
07/03/2008 Nevada Court Says Jury IDs Compromised - Las Vegas Press 0.46%
06/13/2008 Data Breach At Colt Express Outsourcing Inc. - Attorney General Maryland 0.30%
05/30/2008 Stolen Data Ending Up In Google Cache, Say Researchers - Robert Westervelt - SearchSecurity.com 0.30%
05/29/2008 London Properties says Dumping Files a "Mistake" - Christine Park - abc30.com 0.46%
05/13/2008 More Tied to UCLA Snooping - Charles Ornstein - Los Angeles Times 0.15%

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