Molly Waldron reports on a situation at University of Nevada Las Vegas:
UNLV has reported a possible information security breach that took place in 2008.
A spokesman at the school confirmed Tuesday evening that about 2,000 current and former UNLV employees, were being notified that their information, including Social Security numbers, may have been accessed.
The possible breach came to light when it was discovered that a former employee’s computer had been accessed by an unauthorized user. It is unclear whether the user obtained, or intended to obtain, private information.
Read more on KTNV. And no, that wasn’t a typo in the first sentence. The breach reportedly occurred in 2008. Why, you may be wondering, is this first being discovered and reported now? Great questions.
Conor Shine of the Las Vegas Sun also covers the news story and reports:
The discovery was made during recent maintenance on a computer in the school’s Controller’s Office that revealed that an unauthorized person in December 2008 might have accessed the information, UNLV spokesman Tony Allen said Tuesday.
So this is the first time since 2008 anyone checked this computer? Seriously? And now it’s so long ago that they don’t even know if the access was authorized or unauthorized?
Nice going, UNLV.