MTV Data Breach Affects 5,000 Employees

Written on March 11, 2008  |  by RP Mickler  |  Leave a Comment  | 

Last week, Viacom Inc. confirmed in the Wall Street Journal that over 5,000 MTV employees Personal Private Information (PPI) was stolen via a laptop connection. According to Viacom, employee’s social security numbers and dates of birth was among the information released. Employees have been warned to check their credit reports; Viacom did not release any additional information about the attack.

The latest data breach report from Ponemon Institute indicates that 2007’s average cost per compromised record was at $197/record. Given that metric, this would be a $985,000 loss for MTV. Woops. And all because of a laptop.

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