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SUMMARY

Shared username and password vulnerability potentially exposes 1.2 million records
Records	1,200,000
Record Types	SSN NAA ACC
Breach Type	Hack
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Lincoln National Corporation
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	d2d

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2010-01-04	Organization Reports Incident
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records	date	organizations
1,496,000	2005-06-30	DSW Shoes
648,420	2006-09-08	Linden Lab . Second Life
1,000,000	2011-06-02	Sony Pictures, Sony BMG Belgium, Sony BMG Netherlands

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Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$72,000,000.00

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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NH breach notification letter detailing vulnerability that potentially could have compromised over a million SSNs.
Filename	Source	Researcher	Incident IDs
lincoln_financial.pdf	New Hampshire Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau	kirniki	<a href='/incidents/show/2678'>2678</a>
Records	File Date	Uploaded	Updated
18900	2010-01-04	2010-01-26	29 Mar 08:31
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