You won’t find it on their home page, but if you dig into the U. of Arizona‘s web site, you’ll find this notice, posted today: Personal information of certain former law students and applicants to the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law may have been exposed after being stored on a server…
Category: Education Sector
Third-party vendor sends UVa emails to wrong addresses
Even when you don’t disclose personal information, you may get a bad reputation if your vendor sends email to the wrong parties, as this incident suggests: An email intended for applicants to a new online program at the University of Virginia instead was sent by a third-party vendor to a marketing list of people with…
Company responsible for MPS social security mistake explains
Last week, John Cuoco reported that approximately 6,000 Milwaukee Public School District employees found their Social Security numbers exposed in plain view on mailings due to an error by a third party vendor providing prescription drug coverage for MPS Medicare D recipients. Yesterday, he updated his reporting to identify the vendor: The Milwaukee Public School District…
Receptionist at Institute of Allied Medical Professionals charged with stealing, misusing students’ personal info
John Nickerson reports that Bianca Torres of Bridgeport has been charged with stealing personal information of students at at the Institute of Allied Medical Professionals. Torres was employed as a receptionist at the institute for six weeks. Police began investigating after one of the victims did her own investigating and tracked some fraudulent charges on her credit…
Computer server containing Virginia Tech job application info illegally accessed (updated)
Virginia Tech has learned that a computer server in the Department of Human Resources was illegally accessed on August 28, 2013. A VT spokesperson informs DataBreaches.net that the illegal access was from outside the school an IP address in Italy. The server contained information about 144,963 individuals who used the institution’s online employment application process…
Oh, those hidden fields in Excel spreadsheets: Columbia University Medical Center notifies students of breach
It seems that Columbia University Medical Center inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of 138 medical students from the graduating class of 2013 in an Excel spreadsheet sent to faculty, students, and staff. CUMC became aware of the breach on March 15. The breach occurred because the Excel spreadsheet with residency match lists for the graduating…