Incident Number: 620 | Reported on 2007-04-10

Incident Details

Type

Summary

Number Affected:	2,900,000
Country:	US
Data Involved:	Social Security Numbers Name And/Or Address
Breach Type:	Lost Media
Attack Source:	Outside
Data Recovered:	No
Lawsuit:	No
Arrest:	No

Disk with personal information of 2.9 million Georgia residents lost while in possession of Affiliated Computer Services

Organizations Involved

Georgia Department of Community Health
Affiliated Computer Services

References (add)

http://attrition.org/dataloss/2007/04/gdoch01.html

http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/649544/disk-personal-information-29-million-georgia-residents-lost-possession-breach-prone-affiliated-computer-services/

Comments

Tue May 15 14:31:36 -0400 2007 - by mkevhill21

with FACTA fines at $2,500 per incident thats $7,250,000,000. With HIPAA, its about $250,000 fine per incident so thats a fine of $725,000,000,000. These fines should be enough to put ACS out of business considering this is not there first breach and probably not their last.