Between April, 2008, and January, 2009, hackers accessed and exfiltrated data on 119,000 individual affiliated with the university. The hacked data included the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, date of birth (in most cases), and e-mail addresses and physical addresses in some cases.
Not knowing about the hack at the time, Yale did nothing. And in September, 2011, when they purged personal information from that database as part of their updated data protection program, they still had no idea that there had been a hack in 2008.
On June 11, 2018, during the course of a routine security review of Yale’s servers, Yale discovered that at some time between March, 2016 and June, 2018 hackers had accessed and extracted data including the names and Social Security numbers of 33 individuals from that server. Five days later, on June 16, 2018, they discovered the earlier hack.
Yale’s notification letter of July 26, 2018 indicates that they have no evidence of misuse of the information, but are offering those being notified one year of Kroll’s services.
You can read the notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office with the template notification letter on the AG’s site. Yale has also posted information on their website.
Why are they not admitting to knowing about it in 2008-09?? It was in the newspaper!
Are you thinking of the 43,000 one? If so, that’s not the same incident. And if that’s not what you’re referring to, can you tell me more about what you think was in the paper then, as I’ve checked the archives of this site, and I have nothing that corresponds to what’s being reported now.