Sunday, January 3, 2010

Major Identity breaches reported to state authorities - june/november 2009 (source Boston.com)

Eastern Bank:
2,499 Massachusetts residents affected when checking account data were mailed to the wrong customers.

Moriarty & Primack, a Springfield accounting firm:
1,617 residents affected when three laptops were stolen, including more than 1,100 employees and retirees of client Smith College.

Nashbar Direct, an online bicycle equipment dealer in Ohio:
5,318 residents affected when a hacker broke into the company’s servers.

Alpha Software Inc. of Mass.:
994 residents affected when customer credit card numbers were stolen from company’s servers.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
A hacker intrusion into school computers revealed Information on “thousands’’ of former students spanning 1982 to 2002. No exact number given.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts:
39,000 health care providers from Massachusetts affected because their personal data were stored on a stolen laptop.

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts:
1,146 residents affected when a hacker penetrated the hotel company’s data center.

T-Mobile USA:
490 Massachusetts residents affected after a fraud ring gained unauthorized access to their account data.

JPMorgan Chase Bank:
9,015 residents named on missing computer tape.

Network Solutions LLC:
14,677 residents affected when hackers broke into company servers.

DLP Lamp Source:
960 residents affected after company’s website was compromised.

Eagle Bank:
2,431 residents affected by unauthorized disclosure of debit card data.

LexisNexis:
About 8,900 residents affected when unauthorized persons got access to company servers.

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