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SUMMARY

80 patients' names and Social Security numbers available on internet
Records 80
Record Types SSN NAA
Breach Type Web
Data Family Electronic
Source Outside
Organization University of Pittsburgh 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
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2007-04-12 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
56 2007-04-12 Black Hills State University
175 2007-04-24 Purdue University
111 2007-09-10 Purdue University

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 $4,800.00
  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 Dissent [DataLoss Archaeologist] on 2011-07-10 (7 months ago)

Curator's Note: Although the original media report is no longer available, subsequent coverage of this incident revealed that the data were still available on the Internet after UPMC had removed them from their site: they had been archived in the Wayback Machine: http://archive.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070415120100169

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