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SUMMARY

Email containing personal information sent to wrong person.
Records 5,135
Record Types SSN NAA
Breach Type Email
Data Family Electronic
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization MassMutual Financial Group
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: altonius

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2007-08-10 Incident Occurred
2007-08-10 Incident Discovered By Organization
2007-10-17 Organization Reports Incident
2007-10-16 Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

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2,958 2008-04-07 Pershing, LLC, Walnut Street Securities

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COSTS SUMMARY

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Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $308,100.00
  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.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Primary Source ID: 1881

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North Carolina Data Breach Notification : Email sent incorreclty containing list of plan participants to wrong recipient. Contained name and SSN information. 195 NC residents notified.
FilenameSourceResearcher Incident IDs
20071017_mass_mutual.pdfNorth Carolina Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Divisiond2d <a href='/incidents/show/2132'>2132</a>
RecordsFile DateUploadedUpdated
195 2007-10-17 2009-06-13 15 Jun 10:50
Excerpt
1881

North Carolina Security Breach Reporting Form 2 5Q Eiliii Pursuant to the Identity Theft Protection Act of 2005 . Name of Business Owning or Licensing Information Affected by the PLEASE SUBMIT F...

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