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SUMMARY

8,257,378 patient records that included Social Security numbers of about 530,000 accessed by hacker
Records 8,257,378
Record Types SSN NAA MED DOB
Breach Type Hack
Data Family Electronic
Source Outside
Organization Virginia Department of Health Professions
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Lyger

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2009-04-30 Incident Occurred
2009-04-30 Incident Discovered By Organization
2009-06-02 Organization Reports Incident
2009-06-03 Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

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MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Virginia, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $495,442,680.00
  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.

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by Anonymous on 2009-06-12 (almost 3 years ago)

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