A military laptop computer belonging to an Air Force band member went missing. The laptop contained personal information including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and telephone numbers of active and retired Air Force members.

Thieves broke into the Davidson County offices and stole laptop computers that may have contained Social Security numbers and other personal information for every registered voter in the county.

A laptop computer containing personal information on Minnesotans licensed by the state Commerce Department was stolen from one of its Pennsylvania vendors, Promissor Corporation.

A security lapse in the Franklin County Municipal Court Web site allowed hackers to gain access into a clerk's site to steal the name, address, age and Social Security number of over 270 victims charged with misdemeanors, some guilty of only a speeding ticket, to create false credit accounts and open bank accounts.

A malicious program in a computer used to process state insurance information enabled hackers to evade security and steal data. The thieves were able to capture current and former employees' names, home phone numbers and Social Security numbers.

Five computer tapes containing Social Security numbers, phone numbers and addresses for up to 800 current and former employees of the state Dormitory Authority where lost in transit.

A state Department of Aging-owned laptop computer was stolen from the home of an employee. Information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, some medical information and the services clients received.

Forms with employee personal information including names, bank account numbers, and Social Security numbers were found littering the fence of a Brownsville School District warehouse.

The names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses and patient care information of 42,000 patients were all on a laptop computer stolen from a nurse’s home.

A laptop containing the personal information of an undisclosed number of Deloitte & Touche partners, principals and other employees was stolen while in possession of a contractor responsible for scanning the accounting firm's pension fund documents. The computer contained names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and other personnel information, such as hire and termination dates.

A contractor working for the DNR revealed that a computer jump drive went missing containing the names and Social Security numbers for 7000 people.

A laptop was stolen from a contractor's residence that contained approximately 45,000 former patients, employees and physicians. The contractor went against hospital policy by downloading names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and Social Security numbers onto a laptop's hard drive.

An employee, the former county auditor, released an e-mail to a newspaper reporter with a list of all county officials and employees. It reportedly contained names, Social Security numbers, and salaries. It was found when his computer was seized while investigating him for other charges.

Hackers may have infiltrated a non-classified database containing names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of every lab visitor between 1990 and 2004.

A laptop was stolen from the home of a Forrester Research employee, potentially exposing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of an undisclosed number of current and former employees and directors who have received grants of Forrester stock options or who have participated in the research firm's Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

A laptop computer holding donor information, including Social Security numbers, was stolen during early morning preparations for a blood drive.

Social Security numbers of about 1,400 prospective law school applicants may have been compromised when a school Web site was accessed illegally.

Private information of IPL customers, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, was inadvertently posted online for up to four years.

Personal information was taken from the state of Massachusetts' Prescription Advantage insurance program by an identity thief.

Social Security numbers of former students that took a information systems and operations management class between 1998 and 2001 were posted on UF's Computing & Networking Services Web site.

A laptop belonging to Battelle & Battelle LLC, an auditing firm, was stolen from an employee's car. The laptop contained personal information on employees of up to 10 businesses. Battelle & Battelle LLC would not disclose the number of individuals affected by the theft but Masonic Home officials said 600 of its employees' information was stored in the laptop.

Social Security numbers of international students in the English Language Program were inadvertently exposed on the K-State Web site for a year.

Computers stolen in a burglary contained about seven years worth of data including between 500 to 1,000 names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, telephone number, and other information on the company's clients.

Two personal computers and a laptop computer were allegedly stolen from an unsecured room at Roudebush VA Medical Center.One of the stolen computers contained the names, social security numbers and dates of service of approximately 12,000 veterans.

A Commerce Bancorp Inc. employee gave out personal information on an unspecified number of Cherry Hill bank's customers including account numbers and Social Security numbers.

A paramedic left a computer on the back bumper of an ambulance and then drove away. The laptop contains names, address, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of approximately 28,000 people who have been cared for by the Cabarrus County EMS over the last four years.

A laptop with customers' personal information including names, addresses, social security numbers, and bank account numbers was stolen from an employee who took the laptop out of the building against policy.

Three separate data security breaches revealed: A stolen data storage device contained the Social Security numbers of 216 students and employees who lived in on-campus housing; an independent security analyst informed university data security staff that an Excel spreadsheet with the names and Social Security numbers of 42 people was available on the MSU Web site; and while investigating the Excel spreadsheet incident, MSU data-security staff discovered another Excel spreadsheet with the Social Security numbers of 13 people affiliated with the Department of Computer Science on the university's Web site.

Personal information, including the names, ages and Social Security numbers of 1,554 families enrolled in the state's ALL Kids health care coverage program, was accidentally sent to the wrong families by a vendor who printed and mailed the renewal forms. A glitch in computer software was reported as the cause for mismatching people and addresses.

A broken laptop containing nearly 20,000 student's personal information, including Social Security numbers, was taken from the school's financial aid office.

An an administrative faculty member lost a flash drive that contained the names and Social Security numbers of 16,000 current and former students.

Three backup tapes that contained personal information of 230,000 customers, including 9,200 Ohioans, mainly of the company's property lines were misplaced.

About 3,000 Oahu postal employees' names, Social Security numbers and other information were on a laptop computer that was stolen.

Hackers gained entry to the online website of Art.com, retailer of posters, prints and framed art, to access credit card accounts.

Graduates of the fall 1974 class were informed that their names, previous addresses and phone numbers, along with birth dates and Social Security numbers, were on a microfilm reel that went missing.

A Massachusetts restaurant chain was targeted by an individual or individuals seeking to illegally obtain credit card data. Compromised dated included credit card numbers, expiration date and name associated with the card.

The Bates network contained publicly accessible documents of recipients of the federal Perkins Loan that included address, date of birth, Social Security number, legal name and loan amount.

An unauthorized person gained access to confidential files, including Social Security numbers, birth date information and addresses of those who graduated or worked at DSC from 1986 to 2005, and current DSC employees.

A computer tape containing names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and marital status of past and current members of three health insurance programs was lost last week while being shipped via United Parcel Service.

A flash drive was taken from a U.C. Employee last month. It had the Social Security numbers and other data for more than 7,000 people.

Iron Mountain Inc., which is the State of Louisiana’s data storage contractor, has notified LOSF that it lost backup media. The lost media contains Social Security numbers for applicants and their parents; the bank account information for START account holders also was involved.

A laptop computer containing about 10,000 employees' personal data was stolen from a regional manager's car in Massachusetts. The laptop contained names, home addresses and Social Security numbers of certain Home Depot employees.

A laptop computer was reported stolen that contained names, addresses and Social Security numbers for most employees.

Two laptop computers with detailed personal information about commercial drivers across the country who transport hazardous materials are missing and considered stolen. The laptops contained the names, addresses, birthdays, commercial driver's license numbers and, in some cases, Social Security numbers of 3,930 people.

A hacker remotely accessed a computer server that housed records containing credit card numbers and Social Security numbers of students who enrolled online for MSU Extended University courses during the last two years.

Workers' names, addresses and Social Security numbers were on a password-protected laptop that was stolen from the home of a Transportation Department human-resources employee.

A hacker broke into its IT system and accessed a database containing 3,000 customer records. The bank was able to shut down the security breach, but 20 customers had personal data compromised.

Nearly 400 employees along with school volunteers may have been affected when personal information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers, was accessible on the Internet.

Personal information relating to 1,800 Pfizer employees was released onto the Internet over a two-week period during data transmissions. The information included names, addresses, birth dates and driver’s license numbers, but not Social Security numbers.

A laptop computer was stolen from a former teaching assistant's home which contained class records for 184 former students. Social Security numbers were present in 100 of the records.

Boxes of documents containing personal information from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were supposed to be shredded but instead turned up in an off-base trash bin.

About 200 boxes containing personal information, including Social Security numbers, bank accounts and pay stubs, were left in a storage unit by the defunct company and available for sale before being discarded in a dumpster.

The company that maintained the hospital's online bill payment system, transferred patient information from one server to another to perform maintenance but didn't take security measures, leaving information such as names, addresses and Social Security numbers exposed.

A portable drive containing personal information on roughly 3,400 soldiers was stolen out of a soldier's car.

A management consulting company named Axia Ltd. notified Pfizer that two of their laptops were stolen from a locked car. Information included the names and Social Security numbers of health-care professionals.

A laptop computer containing the personal information of patients went missing. The laptop mat hold names, medical record numbers, dates of birth, patient diagnoses, Social Security numbers and addresses.

Personal data including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, credit card transaction slips and checks was stolen from the clinic between January 2006 and February 2007.

A computer previously used by the university's Information Technology Services department was discarded before its hard drive containing student Social Security numbers had been erased.

A lost computer flash drive held the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 300 registry nurses at Patton State Hospital.

Two computers that included names and Social Security numbers for approximately 10,000 current and former students and about 200 current and former faculty and staff members were stolen from the Yale College Dean’s Office.

A former employee of Electronic Data Systems stole the names and identifying information of 498 Alabama Medicaid recipients and subsequently sold 50 of those identities to other individuals to be used in filing fraudulent federal tax returns.

A computer device was stolen from the corporate offices in New Jersey that contained sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, about some 33,000 employees.

A laptop containing extensive personal information on an undisclosed number of VeriSign employees was stolen from an employee's car. The information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, telephone numbers, and salary records.

A computer containing members' names, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, social security numbers and account numbers was taken from the offices of a vendor providing services to the Credit Union.

A database containing Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names of people employed at the facility between 1997 and 2002 was accessible by other employees.

A laptop owned by Mountjoy & Bressler, an accounting firm, was stolen that contained the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of most E.On U.S. employees and some retirees.

Two hard drives stolen from the Health and Human Services Building contained the personal information of some students and staff, including names, Social Security numbers, and grade changes. (Update) An associate professor of health education, was charged in arrest warrants with receiving stolen property, tampering with evidence, unauthorized use of property, obstructing official business, and filing a false report.

A stolen laptop being used as a backup system at the Child Support Services office contained Social Security numbers, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and other private information on 70,000 people, including 30,000 children.

School and city employee personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, was compromised by an ex-employee of a company, Flexible Benefits Administrators, contracted to administer benefit plans.

A breach into City Harvest information systems exposed credit card information of donors.

Wisconsin's Office of Privacy Protection is reporting a breach involving CESA affecting 300+ individuals including current employees, past employees, terminated employees and vendors. Information includes name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and bank routing info.

A laptop stolen in a burglary at Vista Financial Inc., a subcontractor headquartered in Livermore, Calif., contained non encrypted personal information including name, address, phone number, e-mail address and Social Security number of student loan customers.

Marines who had rifle range requalification records while attending Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. had their personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, inadvertently posted online.

A security lapse compromised the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 51,000 patients when a subcontractor, Verus Inc., made a change to the internet server while setting up a program to allow patients to pay bills online.

A hacker gained access to two School of Education databases that contained the names, addresses, some Social Security numbers and some birth dates of current and former students.

SAIC transmitted online, without encryption, information about troops, family members and other government employees maintained on an unsecured server.

Sensitive information including names, addresses and Social Security numbers was found posted to Texas Secretary of State's SOSDirect Web site.

Social Security numbers of 1,800 present and former Jackson Local Schools’ employees were at risk of public access on a county-maintained Web site.

Paperwork containing credit or debit card information for cell phone purchases was stolen from a Omaha store. The theft is suspected to be an inside job.

Connecticut legislature's Transportation Committee inadvertently posted the Social Security numbers of about 100 former employees of now-defunct L.G. Defelice Inc. on a General Assembly Web site.

A September 2005 security breach that remained undetected until "recently" may have compromised the names, addresses and credit card details of roughly 27,000 online customers.

More than 80,000 names and Social Security numbers were accessible on an internal Internet site run by the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body that has oversight over the state's institutions of higher education.

Hackers raided a poorly secured Western Union database and stole names, addresses, phone numbers and complete credit-card information.

A 10 year employee downloaded Social Security numbers of about 1,600 current or former district employees to a home computer as a means to retaliate against the district if that person was disciplined for poor performance.

Credit card or checking account information and addresses for nearly 1,200 people who had enrolled in Encinitas' youth recreation programs was inadvertently posted on the city's Web site.

Credit-card information of members was sold by an employee of a Disney contractor.

Names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers were on a computer memory stick stolen during a carjacking.

Social Security numbers, credit card and bank account information of 420 students may have been compromised during a break-in at a building on campus.

A worker at one of its subsidiaries, Certegy, stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account, driver's license number and other personal information.

Several computers stolen from MSI Risk Management,which handles workers comp claims for the school board, contained personal information including social security numbers of employees who filed workers comp claims between January of 2001 and February of 2007.

A computer hacker gained access to names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2007-08 students who applied to the UC Davis veterinary school.

A flash drive belonging to an accounting professor was lost that contained the names and Social Security numbers of 199 students.

A laptop stolen from an auditor's attached garage contained personal information, including Social Security numbers.

A laptop, which held files with the Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers and other sensitive information for roughly 230,000 licensed Texas peace officers, was stolen during a May 9 burglary of a Houston business.

Thousands of patient profiles including prescriptions, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers and addresses were left behind the grocery store when they closed in 2005.

Account numbers, social security numbers, names and addresses were on a laptop stolen during a car theft.

Personal information including Social Security numbers of more than 300 pilots and other employees at American Airlines was exposed on a company Web site.

A professor vacationing off the coast of Africa lost a flash drive that included the Social Security numbers and dates of birth on just about every student on campus in 2006.

A computer backup tape was stolen from the car of an intern assigned to take it home for safekeeping that contained names and Social Security numbers of 64,467 non-university state employees; the names, Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers of 53,797 employees enrolled in the state's pharmacy-benefits management program; and the names and Social Security numbers of 75,532 dependents, along with bank-account information for local governments, school districts and certain state employees and vendors. Names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers were also on the tape.

Computer backup tapes were stolen from a courier company during transit that contained the name, address, date of birth, social insurance number, member number, ATM/debit card number, credit card number, and/or balances of about 120,000 members.

Personal information on 1,200 employees and retirees was posted on the city’s Web site accidentally.

Children's Social Security numbers are believed to have been compromised by identity thieves.

A flash drive containing about 3,000 Social Security numbers of current and former students were on a flash drive stolen from the English department at Lake Huron Hall.

A Pfizer employee installed unauthorized file-sharing software on a company laptop provided for use at her home, which allowed an unknown number of persons on a peer-to-peer network to access and copy Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and bonus information.

A hacker gained access to names, addresses, phone and Social Security numbers of patients when the hospital's online billing subcontractor turned off a firewall to perform maintenance, exposing the information, then didn't turn it on again.

A hacker accessed a Web database program that stored Social Security numbers of faculty, students and prospective students of the Molecular and Cellular Biology program.

A vulnerability in a computer application resulted in the exposure of current and former U.Va. faculty members to a hacker on 54 separate days. Information accessed included names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth.

57 student loan records were subject to a breach, supposedly after a power surge, that left the records vulnerable to unauthorized Internet access over a two-week period.