Largest data breaches:
- 130,000,000 credit card numbers were stolen from Heartland Payment Systems (H.P.S.) by an outside hacker
- 45 days after discovering the breach, their stock price had fallen almost 74%
- The breach is known to have cost H.P.S. $68,198,380
- 74,000,000 names/address and credit card numbers were stolen from TJ Maxx by an outside hacker
- The breach is known to have cost TJ Maxx $64,113,000
Accidental data breaches:
- Kaiser Permanente was fined $200,000 for publicly posting 150 patient names/addresses and medical records on their website
- At a Blockbuster retail site, hundreds of names/addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers and credit card numbers were found discarded in a dumpster
Inside-job malicious breaches:
- Financial records of 676,000 Bank of America customers were stolen by a bank employee
- 1.8 million social security numbers found on the home computer of a former contractor of the U.S. Dept. of Veterans' Affairs
- A University of Texas student hacked school network and stole 4,719 student and faculty social security numbers
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Current remedial costs come to about $214 per breached record.
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(all examples on this page gathered from the Open Security Foundation's DataLoss Database)
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