A Tulane University-owned laptop was stolen last year that had a file containing private information of each person employed at the university in the past year, according to school officials. The computer had W-2 information, names, Social Security numbers, address and salary for every employee, including student and part-time employees and anyone who will receive…
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Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records
Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records SLDS Technical Brief Guidance for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) SLDS Technical BriefGuidance for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) November 2010, Brief 2 NCES 2011-602 The growth of electronic student data in America’s education system has focused attention on the ways these data are…
Security breach at Savannah college
Eric Curl reports Several hundred Armstrong Atlantic State University alumni’s Social Security numbers have been compromised following the theft of a hard drive from the school’s campus in early October. The numbers stored on the device belonged to former nursing students who attended the university before late 2006, said Armstrong spokesperson Francisco Duque. That was…
Saint Louis University employees notified of computer breach
KSDK alerts us to a breach involving the Saint Louis University network. Although the university has not posted anything to its web site at the time of this posting, KSDK reports that faculty, students and staff have been notified about a computer breach. The station also provides a copy of the email sent to those…
NY: 61,001 Stony Brook University IDs Leaked On the Net
Kevin Lizarazo reports: A file containing 61,001 names, including NetIDs and SBU IDs, was leaked on the Internet on Dec. 14., prompting the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) to investigate the incident. Richard W. Reeder, DoIT’s Chief Information Officer, called the disclosure “very irresponsible.” A user posted the file on sbuchat.com, a website described on…
Ohio State notifies 760,000 of unauthorized access to university server
Earlier this year, Ohio State University (OSU) noted that they had been averaging about data breaches per year, usually minor, but involving SSN. Yesterday, they revealed another breach. I’m not sure how you try to minimize access to a server containing PII on 760,000 people or a finding that your server was used to launch…