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SUMMARY

Social Security numbers and dates of birth of 257,800 on stolen laptop
Records 257,800
Record Types SSN DOB
Breach Type Stolen Laptop
Data Family Electronic
Source Outside
Organization Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Anonymous

TIMELINE

DateEvent
None. Add Data Incident Occurred
2006-06-25 Incident Discovered By Organization
2006-08-02 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

recordsdateorganizations
160,000 2006-07-27 Kaiser Permanente
300,000 2007-01-08 Citigroup, Time Warner Inc., Towers Perrin, Altria, United Technologies, Prudential Financial, Random House, Stanley, Inc., Bertelsmann Services Inc., Lloyd's Register Group, AGL Resources Inc., Salvage Association, The Nielsen Company, Major League Baseball, Unilever, Harlequin Holdings, Celanese Americas Corporation, The Interpublic Group, Dover Corporation, Continuum Health Partners, Maersk Inc. / P&O Nedlloyd, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, Cambrex Corporation, Strategic Industries, Shorewood, Swiss International Air Lines, LTD, Alpharma, Inc.
130,000 2007-02-08 St. Mary's Hospital

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $15,468,000.00
  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.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Primary Source ID: 623

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Stolen laptop containing personal information of name, social security number and date of birth
FilenameSourceResearcher Incident IDs
VassarBros-20060625.PDFNew York State Consumer Protection Boardcwalsh <a href='/incidents/show/385'>385</a>
RecordsFile DateUploadedUpdated
Not yet entered 2006-10-20 2008-12-04 23 Sep 17:38
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COMMENTS

by Dissent [DataLoss Archaeologist] on 2011-09-06 (5 months ago)

Curator's Note: Vassar Brothers subsequently reported that no personally identifiable data were ever on the stolen laptop and that there had therefore been no breach at all.

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