March 2012 — Private records of the California Department of Child Support Services for more than 800,000 people are lost in transit.
April 25, 2012 — Texas' attorney general accidentally releases about 6.5 million Social Security numbers to lawyers challenging a voter ID case.
Officials said the information was on encrypted disks and was not publicly released.
September 2012 — Hackers steal electronically filed tax returns for 3.8 million consumers and 657,000 businesses from the South Carolina Department of Revenue.
January 2013 — Information for more than 100,000 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice employees and youth offenders is put at risk after a mobile device storing that information was taken from a facility.
February 2013 — The Washington state court system announces that up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers may have been accessed.
November 2013 — The Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona is hacked, exposing Social Security numbers and banking information for more than 2 million students, staff and vendors in the breach.
October 2014 — The Oregon Employment Department found Social Security numbers were compromised for more than 850,000 people who were searching for jobs.
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