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THIS IS A FRINGE INCIDENT

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SUMMARY

Search keywords for 658,000 users are made public, includes some personal information.
Records	658,000
Record Types	NAA MISC
Breach Type	Web
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Inside - Accidental
Organization	America Online (AOL)
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	YES
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	altonius

Date	Event
2006-08-06	Incident Occurred
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2006-08-07	Organization Reports Incident
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2006-09-25	Lawsuit Filed
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records	date	organizations
470,000	2010-06-23	Unknown Organization, WellPoint, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

Address: United States
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Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$39,480,000.00

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.