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Device with personal information stolen off campus

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Dissent

Jocelyn Wright provides additional details on the previously mentioned breach involving a device stolen from Rice University.   As the headline indicates in their student newspaper suggests, it appears that the device was stolen off-campus, although the university is not providing additional detail on that.    The article also indicates that the data on the…

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Saint Anselm College alumni mailing exposed SSN

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Dissent

Back in May, Saint Anselm College notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a spring 2010 mailing of its alumni newsletter had inadvertently exposed SSN of 122 New Hampshire residents on the mailing labels. This month, Saint Anselm notified the office that it seemed that the exposure problem had occurred as early as its…

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Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches?

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Dissent

John Cox discusses the recent report by Application Security, mentioned previously on this site. A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins. Application Security, which uses the name AppSec, reviewed data breaches in higher education, drawing from a variety of published sources. The company, based…

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TX: Personal info stolen from 7,250 associated with Rice U.

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Dissent

KTRK reports: Houston police are investigating the theft of personal information of more than 7,000 people associated with Rice University. The university says a device containing information involving about 7,250 Rice faculty and staff, along with some students and retirees, was recently stolen. One of the files contained a list of Rice employees and students…

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Follow-up: Lawsuit filed over horrific student records breach

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Dissent

Kathianne Boniello reports that a parent and her child are suing the New York City  Department of Education after the child’s high school dumped hundreds of unshredded confidential student records onto the street last year. The incident was covered on this site here. The School for the Physical City filled a Dumpster with 15 cardboard…

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CA: Corona-Norco school district confronts security breach

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Dissent

Dayna Straehley reports: The Corona-Norco school district inadvertently published the Social Security numbers of more than 80 teachers and administrators on the Internet, a security breach discovered by an information privacy watchdog. Aaron Titus, information privacy director for the Liberty Coalition in Washington, D.C., said he found the list using a Google search as part…

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