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Data Losses in the USA since 2005

Date Made Public

Company (Location)

Type of Breach

Number of Records Lost

Feb. 25 , 2005

Bank of America, (Charlotte, NC)

Lost backup tape

1,200,000

April 20, 2005

Ameritrade, (Bellevue, NE)

Lost backup tape

200,000

April 28, 2005

Wachovia,

Dishonest insiders

676,000

May 2, 2005

Time Warner, (New York, NY)

Lost backup tapes

600,000

June 6, 2005

CitiFinancial

Lost backup tapes

3,900,000

June 10, 2005

Fed. Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)

Not disclosed

6,000

July 6, 2005

City National Bank

Lost backup tapes

Unknown

Oct. 21, 2005

Wilcox Memorial Hospital, Hawaii

Lost backup tape

130,000

Dec. 16, 2005

La Salle Bank, ABN AMRO Mortgage Group

Lost backup tapes

2,000,000

Jan. 25, 2006

Providence Home Services (Portland, OR)

Stolen Backup Tapes

365,000

April 1, 2006

Con Edison (New York)

Lost Backup Tape

15,000

April 27 2006

MasterCard, (Potentially UK Only)

Unknown Loss

2,000

April 27 2006

Long Island Rail Road (Jamaica, NY)

Lost Data Tapes

17,000

June 16 2006

NY State Controller's Office (albany, NY)

Lots Backup Tape

1,300

June 29, 2006

Minnesota Dept. of Revenue (St. Paul, MN)

Lost Backup Tape

50,400

July 5, 2006

Bisys Group Inc. (Roseland, NJ)

Lost Backup Tape

61,000

July 18, 2006

Nelnet Inc. (Lincoln, NE)

Lots Backup Tape

188,000

July 25, 2006

Cablevision Systems Corp.

Lost Backup Tape

13,700

Aug. 18, 2006

Calif. Dept. of Mental Health

Lost Backup Tape

9,468

Sept. 7, 2006

Circuit City and Chase Card Services, a division of JP Morgan Chase & Co. (Wilmington, DE)

Discarded Backup Tapes

2600000

Oct. 15, 2006

Poulsbo Department of Licensing

Unknown Loss

2,200

Jan. 26, 2007

WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (Virginia)

Stolen Backup Tapes

196,000

Mar. 30, 2007

Univ. of Montana - Western (Dillon, MT)

Stolen Backup Tapes

400

Apr. 6, 2007

Hortica (Edwardsville, IL)

Lost Backup Tape

Unknown

May 1, 2007

J. P. Morgan (Chicago, IL)

Lost Backup Tape

47,000

May 15, 2007

IBM (Armonk, NY)

Lost Backup Tape

Unknown

June 15, 2007

Ohio state workers (Columbus, OH)

Stolen Backup Device

500,000

July 9, 2007

Girl Scouts (Denver, CO)

Stolen Backup Tapes

 Unknown

July 16, 2007

TSA (Arlington, VA)

Lost Storage Device

100,000

Sept. 19, 2007

University of Michigan School of Nursing (Ann Arbor, MI)

Lost Backup Tape

8,585

Sept. 20, 2007

State of Connecticut/Accenture Ltd. (Hartford, CT)

Stolen Backup Tape

58

Oct. 30, 2007

Hartford Financial Services Group (Hartford, CT/OH)

Lost Backup Tapes

230,000

Dec. 20, 2007

Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (Manhattan, NY)

Lost Backup Tapes

800

Mar. 26, 2008

BNY Mellon Shareowner Services (Pittsburgh, PA)

Lost Backup Tapes

3,500

April 17, 2008

University of Miami (Miami, FL)
 

Stolen Computer Tapes

2,100,000

May 7, 2008

SAIC

Lost Backup Tapes

4,690

Feb 2008

Bank of New York Mellon

Lost Backup Tapes

4,500,000

Total Number of Records Lost to Date

 

19,723,411

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