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WI: Marquette University suffers potential data breach on grad school applications

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Dissent

Gitte Laasby reports:

Marquette University has suffered a potential data breach because of a technical glitch that allowed anyone with Marquette login credentials access to personal information on people’s graduate school applications kept on an internal server.

The accessible information includes Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, test scores and financial information, Marquette University officials said in a statement Thursday.

Read more on the Journal Sentinel.


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