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SUMMARY

18,000 names and Social Security numbers of current and former students posted on the Internet
Records 18,000
Record Types SSN
Breach Type Web
Data Family Electronic
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization Ohio State University
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: d2d

TIMELINE

DateEvent
None. Add Data Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2008-12-31 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

SIMILAR INCIDENTS

recordsdateorganizations
49,000 2005-08-19 University of Colorado
21,762 2005-09-16 Miami University
9,100 2005-10-15 Montclair State University
26,000 2005-12-08 J-Sargeant Reynolds Community College

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Columbus, OH, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $1,080,000.00
  1. 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.

COMMENTS

by Anonymous on 2009-01-05 (about 3 years ago)

This breach included health plan ID cards with account numbers.

by Anonymous on 2009-04-13 (almost 3 years ago)

As with numerous places, OSU prefers to quietly 'minimize' loss situations if it can. There have been more than these that never made the press. -Insider

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