Erin Prah reports: According to Liz Latt and Beth Fortune in Public Affairs, a professor’s desktop computer, containing the names and social security numbers of 7,174 current and former students, was stolen some time during the weekend of Feb. 6. Letters were sent on March 10 and 11 to the 7,171 current and former students,…
Category: Education Sector
Audit: Some sensitive data at ISU not adequately secured
Kurt Erickson reports: State auditors say lax security at Illinois State University could have allowed university credit card accounts, personal health information and employee Social Security numbers to get into the wrong hands. In a report on the university’s financial practices for the year ending in June 2009, Illinois Auditor General Bill Holland said auditors…
Wickenburg Unified School District struggles to secure sensitive student data
Pat Kossan reports that data security in the Wickenburg Unified School District was found seriously lacking in a state audit: Wickenburg Unified School District has not secured its computer system containing sensitive student data, including student addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers, state auditors found. Staffers from the Arizona Office of the Auditor General…
More info on the Brown University incident report
The Brown University breach, which I had just included in another blog entry this morning, now has some additional details available. Julia Kim of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island accidentally sent paper records of more than 500 Brown employees and their family members to another subscriber company…
Six newly revealed breaches on HHS site
It seems that using the new HHS/OCR web site will be even more difficult than I anticipated, as they are sorting breach reports by the date of breach, not date that the incident was added to their site, so I have to review the entire list to see what’s been added instead of just looking…
Update: UTMB sends more letters to possible ID theft victims
Cindy George reports that the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston breach reported last month was bigger than originally thought and more people have now been notified. At least 10 people have self-identified as victims of identity theft: One month after mailing letters to 1,200 patients whose confidential information may have been stolen in…