So as if we didn’t have enough breaches in higher education recently, San Diego State University is notifying students who were enrolled in Pre-College Institute programs that their name, Social Security number, date of birth, address, and other personal information was in a database that enabled any computer connected to the SDSU wired network (offices,…
Category: Education Sector
The MCCCD breach: Breach costs now approach $20 million
Mary Beth Faller reports that breach costs for the Maricopa County Community College District (“MCCCD”) breach continue to rise: The Maricopa County Community College District governing board has approved an additional $2.3 million in lawyers’ fees to deal with the computer-security breach that occurred last year. The board also approved spending $300,000 to deal with…
UK: University of Nottingham mistakenly sends e-mail containing personal details of job applicants
Marcus Boocock reports: Confidential details of thousands of job applicants were mistakenly sent via e-mail by the University of Nottingham. An attachment sent to users of the university’s job site contained the names of 4,751 people who had applied for a job there. It also listed whether they had been successful. A spokesman for the…
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine students notified of breach by benefits administrator Hubbard-Bert
Hubbard-Bert is the benfits administrator for students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. On April 24, they learned that spreadsheets containing personal information of some LECOM students was inadvertently exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration of a test server on April 14 (yes, a test server should not have live data for exactly…
Commentary: We need a congressional inquiry into the MCCCD breach
President Truman had a sign on his desk that said, “The buck stops here.” We could use more of that accountability when it comes to data breaches in the education sector. Back in 2006, when I first began blogging about data breaches on PogoWasRight.org, I covered a series of breaches at Ohio University. One of the things that…
University of Nebraska – Omaha Investigating Security Breach Involving Personal Information
KPTM reports: School officials at UNO say they are investigating unauthorized access to an administrative server within campus security. They say an incident was discovered last week during a security scan and that the server contained files with personal information and Social Security numbers. Police are looking into the case to see if any individuals’ personal…