More than 53,000 people, who did business with the University of Hawaii at Manoa parking office’s data base from 1998-2009, are being notified by mail that they may be affected by a computer security breach. The FBI and Honolulu Police Department are investigating the breach that was discovered on June 15 during a routine audit….
Category: Education Sector
UF officials notify patients of privacy breach
University of Florida officials have notified 2,047 people that their Social Security or Medicaid identification numbers were included on address labels affixed to letters inviting them to participate in a research study. The letters were sent through the U.S. Postal Service on May 24, and the information also was shared with a telephone survey company….
CA: Officials investigate potential information breach
Some personal information from a computer science and engineering class at Cal State San Bernardino may have been disclosed. Information from one class roster file containing names and social security numbers was inadvertently made public through a Web server. The files were promptly removed upon discovery on June 10, and university officials are investigating if…
UMaine students who sought mental health services’ data compromised
The University of Maine police department is investigating a data breach of which has lead to the exposure of personal and medical information of almost 5,000 students between the summer of 2002 and this past week. According to a press release from the university, the servers which have been breached were the ones that stored…
NY: Going hack to school
Rebecca Harshbarger andYoav Gonen report: It was a technical foul. Hackers accessed the personal information of more than 2,400 Brooklyn Tech HS students and posted it on the school’s Web site, The Post has learned. The startling security breach put students’ names, addresses and birth dates — and, in many cases, their Social Security numbers…
OU Reports Virus, Security Breach
The University of Oklahoma is warning students about a security breach that may put their personal information at risk. The university said its Information Technology department noticed unusual Internet activity on a laptop computer associated with its network. It said it determined the computer belonged to an employee and was infected with a virus known…