Wayne Washington reports: Midlands Technical College warned employees last month that a flash drive containing some of their personal information was taken from a human resources office at the college. The flash drive, since returned — without the personal data it previously held — could compromise the personal information of some of the college’s 500…
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Hard drive containing personal information of some Western Michigan University students and faculty missing
Gabrielle Russon reports: A backup hard drive containing names and social security numbers of several hundred current and former students and faculty members is missing, Western Michigan University spokeswoman Cheryl Roland said Tuesday. The hard drive, which contained a WMU department’s academic records, was first noticed missing from an office desk on Jan. 25. Roland…
Hard drive from Alaska Dept. of Education with 89,519 students’ information stolen
Reba Lean reports: The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has warned school districts across the state that information on thousands of students, including some from Fairbanks, was contained on a computer hard drive stolen in Juneau. The department sent a letter to all school districts, including Fairbanks, alerting local officials to information breach….
Univ. of South Carolina warns 31,000 that personal info was exposed on the Web
Noelle Phillips reports: USC has experienced computer security breach that has exposed 31,000 people’s private information, including social security numbers, on the internet. The security breach was discovered in January on a computer server at USC Sumter, but it potentially affected faculty, staff, retirees and students throughout the university system’s eight campuses. “Letters went out…
6,000 Missouri State U. Students Have Social Security Numbers Exposed on Web
KTTS alerts us to a breach involving Missouri State University students. A statement on MSU’s web site explains: Missouri State University officials are notifying 6,030 College of Education students that their social security numbers may have been compromised as a result of an internal security breach. In October and November 2010, in preparation for an…
UK: Imperial College Dept. of Computing in IT Security Breach
The Department of Computing has found itself the subject of a “security breach”, and Imperial College’s ICT department is taking “precautionary” action to prevent malicious access to user accounts. An email to all students and staff within the department informed students that there had been “a root level compromise was discovered on the main shell…