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SUMMARY

Documents and laptop stolen from employee's home contained personal and protected health information on 500 Penn Foster employees
Records 500
Record Types SSN NAA ADD
Breach Type Stolen Laptop
Data Family Physical
Source Outside
Organization Unknown Organization
Other Affected/Involved Organizations Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Penn Foster
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? YES
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Dissent

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2011-09-09 Incident Occurred
2011-09-12 Incident Discovered By Organization
2011-09-30 Organization Reports Incident
2011-09-23 Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

SIMILAR INCIDENTS

recordsdateorganizations
1,400 2005-06-23 Kent State University
280 2006-07-14 University of Iowa
300 2006-08-02 Belhaven College
500 2007-01-03 Academic Magnet High School

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Pennsylvania, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $30,000.00
  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.

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