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SUMMARY

19,799 employees' names and Social Security Numbers exposed on the Internet
Records 19,799
Record Types SSN NAA
Breach Type Web
Data Family Electronic
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization Swedish Medical Center
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Dissent

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2011-04-10 Incident Occurred
2011-06-17 Incident Discovered By Organization
2011-07-20 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

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17,000 2006-06-03 Humana Medicare
25,000 2008-04-04 Århus Sygehus (Aarhus Hospital)
9,911 2008-04-09 Michelle Burdine-Merai DDS

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Seattle, WA, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $1,187,940.00
  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 Anonymous on 2011-07-24 (10 months ago)

My wife was impacted by this breach...

Does anyone know how this was detected? I can't imagine the employee who reclessly and likely cluelessy opened his/her home network discovered this. Was it only after someone else was hit by identity theft that they discovered the source? what are others ways such a leak would be detected?

thx!

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