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SUMMARY

359,661 customers' credit card numbers stolen
Records 359,661
Record Types CCN
Breach Type Hack
Data Family Electronic
Source Outside
Organization Unknown Organization
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? YES
Submitted By: Dissent

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2007-08-01 Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2011-04-21 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

SIMILAR INCIDENTS

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300,000 2000-01-10 CD Universe
310,000 2005-04-12 LexisNexis, Accurint, Seisint, Port Orange Police Department , Reed Elsevier
648,420 2006-09-08 Linden Lab . Second Life
226,000 2008-01-30 Davidson Companies

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: United States
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $21,579,660.00
  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.

COMMENTS

by jkouns [Master Researcher] on 2011-04-28 (about 1 year ago)

The United States Secret Service, as part of an on-going investigation to identify the Internet's largest on-line identity thieves, identified the defendant as a seller of credit card information in Internet Relay Chat ("IRC") chat rooms and on criminal carding forums, on-line
discussion forums set up to promote identity theft. A federal search warrant executed on the defendant's residence on June 30, 2009 located 676,443
stolen credit card accounts on the
defendant's computers and in his e-mail accounts. Credit card companies have identified tens of thousands of fraudulent charges on these accounts totaling $36,624,815.52

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