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Penn notifies group of students of a breach in security that involved their private info

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Dissent

Kelly Heinzerling reports:

A breach in privacy of some advance class registration lists has prompted the University to launch an investigation and to notify the students of the incident whose personal information was accessed during this incident.

The class lists contained information on class enrollment and included students’ name and the last four digits of their social security numbers, according to the email sent out this afternoon by Chief University Privacy Officer Scott Schafer.

Read more on The Daily Pennsylvanian.


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