Who Breached: Davidson County Election Commission
Number Affected: 337,000
Information breached: Social Security Numbers
How: 2 laptops stolen

Welcome to 2008! And to a whole new series of data breaches. Perhaps not how most businesses want to start off the new year.

The Davidson County Election Commission has breached the personal information, including Social Security Numbers, of more than 337,000 of its voting constituents. A thief broke into several county offices on Christmas Eve and stole 2 laptops a camera and a router.

On Christmas Eve, electronic records show the computer going offline (being stolen). The thief gained access by means of breaking a window, although it appears he/she was cut in the process. Leaving evidence behind that could potentially lead to the thief.

At first, it was thought only partial Social Security Numbers were involved, but investigation found that the data contained full SSNs. The Election Commission will be contacting the affected voters.

Via attrition.org, tennessean, news channel 5 Tags: davidson county, election commission, data breach, id theft, breach, it security