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SUMMARY

Passwords and codes for downloading consumer credit reports sold
Records 30,000
Record Types MISC
Breach Type Fraud Se
Data Family Unknown
Source Inside - Malicious
Organization Teledata Communications
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? YES
Submitted By: Anonymous

TIMELINE

DateEvent
None. Add Data Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2004-09-16 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
34,000 2007-09-04 Pfizer
44,023 2007-11-30 Prudential Financial
60,000 2002-02-28 Prudential Financial

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 $1,800,000.00
  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.

COMMENTS

by Anonymous on 2009-06-22 (almost 3 years ago)

Problem is that no one ever knows that magnification until it happens.
The problem is that companies that are made aware of FACTA and State Laws don't feel that it applies to them and they dont want to start the Compliance!
THATS THE PROBLEM, TOO!

So they become Reactive instead of Proactive!

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