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SUMMARY

2,257 Social Security numbers of living veterans was mistakenly released to Ancestry.com as part of a response to a Freedom of Information Act request
Records	2,257
Record Types	SSN NAA
Breach Type	Web
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Inside - Accidental
Organization	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	jkouns

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records	date	organizations
1,500	2006-08-27	New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts
1,200	2006-10-03	Cumberland County Pennsylvania
4,624	2006-10-11	Florida Department of Labor
1,753	2007-02-17	State of Connecticut

Address: Birmingham, AL, USA
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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$135,420.00

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.