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SUMMARY

Veteran patient details kept on Yahoo Calendar using single password, may have been visible to unauthorised users.
Records	878
Record Types	NAA MED
Breach Type	Web
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Inside - Accidental
Organization	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	altonius

Date	Event
2007-07-01	Incident Occurred
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2010-11-23	Incident Discovered By Organization
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2010-11-23	Organization Reports Incident
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2010-12-02	Organization Mails Notifications
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None. Add Data	Records Recovered
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None. Add Data	Lawsuit Filed
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None. Add Data	Arrest Made
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records	date	organizations
1,000	2006-06-27	Government Accountability Office
1,500	2006-08-27	New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts
1,200	2006-10-03	Cumberland County Pennsylvania
1,753	2007-02-17	State of Connecticut

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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$52,680.00

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.