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SUMMARY

98 individuals personal information was posted on the web.
Records	98
Record Types	SSN NAA EMA
Breach Type	Web
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Unknown
Organization	Columbia University
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	osf2

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2006-06-26	Incident Discovered By Organization
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2006-07-05	Organization Reports Incident
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2006-06-30	Organization Mails Notifications
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Address: New York, NY, USA
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Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$5,880.00

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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Through inadvertence, an emergency contact list from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, containing, among other things, names, business and home phone numbers, emergency contact person and social security numbers was posted on an unsecured web page. Although the incident occurred almost a year ago in August 2005, and was believed to have been fully corrected, a copy of the list was recently found on the Internet.
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
ColumbiaU-20060626.PDF	New York State Consumer Protection Board	cwalsh	<a href='/incidents/show/1865'>1865</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
98	2006-07-05	2008-12-04	23 Sep 16:24
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