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SUMMARY

Mailing error exposes 262 members names, addresses, Social Security numbers to the wrong addresses
Records	262
Record Types	SSN NAA
Breach Type	Snail Mail
Data Family	Unknown
Source	Inside - Accidental
Organization	Group Insurance Commission
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	kirniki

Date	Event
2008-12-08	Incident Occurred
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2008-12-15	Organization Reports Incident
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2008-12-15	Organization Mails Notifications
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records	date	organizations
498	2006-06-20	New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
597	2009-06-03	State of Maine Office of Information Technology
697	2010-03-16	House of Commons of Canada

Address: Boston, MA, USA
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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$15,720.00

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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Massachusetts breach notification - MA Group Insurance Commission - Mailing error sends names, Social Security numbers and addresses to the wrong members. 262 total affected, 214 MA residents affected
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
20081215_commonwealth_insurance_group_MA.pdf	Massachusetts Attorney General	d2d	<a href='/incidents/show/2281'>2281</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
214	2008-12-15	2009-08-08	13 Aug 13:43
Excerpt
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission _ l‘i‘?:_ A 1=.o. Box 8747 `fltestsr-Msttsshvrstti 02*4%7 727-2310 'Q L _ 1 Fax (617) 227-2681 _ Q l-- ` ` I ` "“ gf ‘...

add details to this primary source Description
Massachusetts breach notification - MA Group Insurance Commission - Mailing error sends names, Social Security numbers and addresses to the wrong members. 262 total affected, 214 MA residents affected
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
20081215_group_insurance_commission.pdf	Massachusetts Attorney General	d2d	<a href='/incidents/show/2281'>2281</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
214	2008-12-15	2009-08-08	02 Jun 06:58
Excerpt
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts "'1 \ "17 ET? ° ‘ Group IHSUIEIHCG COIIIIHISSIOH ` — r>.o. Box 8747 rwjipston, Massachusetts 021 l4?8747 (my) 727-23lg Wi f` ‘; V Fax (617) 227-2681 _ _`...