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SUMMARY

Employee performing unauthorized database searches, customers SSN exposed
Records	2,108
Record Types	SSN NAA
Breach Type	Unknown
Data Family	Unknown
Source	Inside - Malicious
Organization	City of New York Department of Environmental Protection
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	kirniki

Date	Event
2006-12-04	Incident Occurred
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2007-03-28	Organization Reports Incident
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2007-03-26	Organization Mails Notifications
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records	date	organizations
1,298	2010-07-16	Utah Department of Workforce Services

Address: Flushing, NY, USA
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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$126,480.00

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.

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New York breach notification - City of New York Department of Environmental Protection - An employee was performing unauthorized data searches on customers details. SSN of 2108 affected
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
NY_dept_environmental_protection.pdf	New York State Consumer Protection Board	cwalsh	<a href='/incidents/show/1775'>1775</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
0	2007-03-28	2008-12-25	17 Feb 19:24
Excerpt
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Auditing of database records identifies unauthorised access to database records
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
NH_nyc.pdf	New Hampshire Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau	kirniki	<a href='/incidents/show/1775'>1775</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
6	2007-04-11	2008-12-04	23 Sep 14:21
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