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"A breach of 1500 client files with personal information can cost an excess of $300,000 in notification, resolution and legal costs."

"According to the ID Theft Resource Center data breaches are up 47% from 2008"

"71% of businesses surveyed say their organization does not have an accurate inventory of where personal data for employees and customers is stored."
Price Waterhouse Coopers 2008 Global State of Information Security Study

Data Breach of the Week

Medical Receptionist Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft Charge

A former receptionist for two medical doctors in downtown Washington has pleaded guilty to stealing the personal information of 37 patients as part of her role in a $2.1 million identity theft ring that included Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke among its victims.

The 36-year-old Maryland woman's co-conspirators used the patients' information she sold them to steal $849,197.

During her year as the doctors' receptionist, she handed over patients' information gleaned by photocopying personal checks, and retrieving their birthdays and Social Security numbers from files. In return, she was paid between $200 and $500 for each victim's information.

The information was used to create fake Maryland driver's licenses containing a victim's information with a picture of another member of the conspiracy, court documents said. Then the license was used to drain cash from bank accounts, sometimes by cashing checks stolen from other victims by pickpockets.