Data Loss Source: As many as 2 million Countrywide customers may be at risk thanks to a data breach that lasted for nearly two years. A former Countrywide employee was arrested on August 1 and charged with illegally accessing the lender?s records to sell sales leads to mortgage brokers.
Date of Breach: Sept. 11, 2008
Size of Loss : 2,000,000
Affected Individuals: Countrywide customers
Geographic Focus: Nationwide
Data contained: Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and loan details
Additional Notes: The company promised to provide two years of free credit monitoring to affected individuals.
Additional Information: Consumer Affairs
Data Loss Source: Detailed public land records were published on a Web site sponsored by Iowa elected officials.
Date of Breach: Sept. 3, 2008
Size of Loss : Unknown
Affected Individuals: Land owners
Geographic Focus: Des Moines
Data contained: Private information was posted on the site, including Social Security numbers for Gov. Chet Culver and Secretary of State Michael Mauro.
Additional Notes: All the records with personal information that can be used in identity theft be immediately removed.
Additional Information: Des Moines Register
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Data Loss Source: East Burke High School?s website exposed 163 staff members? Social Security numbers and other personal information on the Internet.
Date of Breach: Sept. 6, 2008
Size of Loss : 163
Affected Individuals: Students
Geographic Focus: Morganton
Data contained: Social Security numbers and other personal information.
Additional Notes: The school district and the State Employees Credit Union will have a meeting Wednesday at East Burke to talk about preventing and responding to identity theft and to address people?s questions and concerns.
Additional Information: Morganton.com
The number of U.S. breaches of personal information that could be used to commit identity theft so far this year has already passed the total for 2007.
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, this year?s running total passed the 2007 mark of 446 on Friday, with more than four months to go.
Between January 1st and June 27th, the total number of data breaches recorded by the ITRC is 342, more than 69% greater than the same time period in 2007. The actual number of breaches is more than likely higher, due to underreporting, and the fact that some of the breaches reported, which affect multiple businesses, are listed as a single event.
Data Loss Source: About 1,500 customers of Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines were victimized by a former call center employee who stole their credit card information, according to Alaska Air Group, the airlines? parent company.
Size of Loss : 1,500
Affected Individuals: Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines customers
Geographic Focus: U.S.
Data contained: Credit card details
Additional Notes: The former call center worker diverted payments meant for Horizon and Alaska to a personal account between August 2006 and June 2008, according to Alaska Air Group.
Additional Information: Press Democrat
Data Loss Source: The Princeton Review, a test-preparation company, accidentally published students? personal information online this summer for about six weeks.
Date of Loss: August 21, 2008
Size of Loss : 300
Affected Individuals: Students
Geographic Focus: Fairfax County, Virginia
Data contained: Student names, identification numbers assigned by the school system and dates of birth. The information, dating from 2006, also included the students? sexes and schools.
Additional Notes: In a statement, the company said the security breakdown probably occurred when the files were transferred to a new Web hosting provider.
Additional Information: Washington Post
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Data Loss Source: The Ministry of Justice has reported that around 45,000 people were affected in nine separate data loss incidents. The worst single incident was in June 2007 when 27,000 people working for department suppliers were affected after information from badly protected electronic storage devices was disclosed without authorization. The second most serious incident occurred in January 2008 when 14,000 people were affected due to a badly-protected laptop being stolen from secured government premises.
Date of Loss: August 18, 2008
Size of Loss : 45,000
Affected Individuals: Citizens
Geographic Focus: Britain
Data contained: Names, dates of birth, bank details and some national insurance numbers was among the information stolen.
Additional Notes: The government did not send letters of notification to affected citizens.
Additional Information: ITPro.com
Data Loss Source: Computers were stolen from Charter Communications? offices, putting employees at risk of identity theft.
Date of Loss: August 13, 2008
Size of Loss : 9,000
Affected Individuals: Charter employees
Geographic Focus: U.S.
Data contained: The information included Social Security numbers, dates of birth and driver?s license numbers.
Additional Notes: Charter notified affected employees with letters last week and offered a year of credit protection service.
Additional Information: St. Louis Business Journals
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Wells Fargo Customers at Risk of ID Theft
August 17th, 2008
Data Loss Source: Wells Fargo is notifying customers that hackers have accessed their confidential personal data by illegally using its access codes.
Date of Loss: August 11, 2008
Size of Loss : 7,000
Affected Individuals: Wells Fargo customers
Geographic Focus: Minneapolis, MN
Data contained: Personal information including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver?s license numbers and in some cases, credit account information was accessed by ?unauthorized persons?.
Additional Notes: The bank learned of the compromise on July 1 when MicroBilt, a reseller of consumer data, notified it of suspicious transactions made using the Wells Fargo access codes, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based bank said Monday. The codes are used by Wells Fargo employees to gain access to consumer credit data.
Additional Information: Network World
Data Loss Source: Arapahoe Community College (ACC) said that 15,000 students that their personal information has been lost or stolen. A contractor who manages the student information database had a flash drive lost or stolen at Copper Mountain Resort in Summit County.
Date of Loss: August 1, 2008
Size of Loss : 15,000
Affected Individuals: ACC students
Geographic Focus: Littleton, Colorado
Data contained: Names, addresses, credit card numbers and social security numbers
Additional Notes: A letter detailing the loss was mailed to all affected students.
Additional Information: 9News.com
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