At the University of Chicago, Social Security numbers of employees were mistakenly printed on postcards sent out as reminders for health benefits.
Recently arrested prisoners had their Social Security numbers accidentally posted to Facebook during a software update snafu at a sheriff's office in Maine.
The country's top derivatives regulator endured a phishing attack which led to the compromise of employee data.
Sensitive data belonging to people who made web-based purchases at the University of Maine's Orono Campus may have been stolen after the school's server suffered a security breach.
The personal information of home care workers and their elderly and disabled recipients may have been compromised when the storage device on which it was contained was lost in the mail.
The Social Security numbers and financial account information of students and staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte were exposed during an online security breach.
The personal information of 14,000 students, former students and faculty at Volunteer Community College was placed on a web server that was not secure.
The Social Security numbers of millions of Texas voters were mistakenly given to opposing lawyers by the state attorney's office as part of a voter ID case.
