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SUMMARY

Hacker accessed applicant database containing 275,000 applicants' Social Security numbers, addresses, and birthdates.
Records	275,000
Record Types	SSN NAA DOB
Breach Type	Hack
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	University of Southern Cailfornia
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	YES
Submitted By:	Anonymous

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records	date	organizations
178,000	2004-03-17	San Diego State University
380,000	2004-05-07	University of California San Diego
197,000	2006-04-23	Univ. Texas McCombs Business, , University of Texas at Austin

Address: California, USA
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Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$16,500,000.00

Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.