The Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone contacts for at least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years ago were unintentionally disclosed online, the university said today. The applicants were notified this week and urged to contact credit-reporting agencies, school official said. The personal information, which did not include…
Category: Education Sector
WA: Fraud ‘hits’ follow local data breach (updated)
As an update on a story posted here yesterday, Howard Buck reports that over 3,000 employees were affected by the breach of Vancouver Public Schools, and that: Already, several Vancouver district employees have reported “hits” of suspicious personal banking account activity after their financial institutions were alerted to possible fraud, by the district or by…
Stolen Laptop Contained Social Security Numbers of Students & Alumni
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is notifying current and former students who were enrolled in psychology professor Julie Kontos’ classes from spring 2004 through the summer of 2006 about the possible loss of their social security numbers when a laptop was stolen from a campus office. […] “We have identified and are in the process of…
WA: Vancouver schools’ employee data breached
Howard Buck reports: Vancouver Public Schools said on Monday it had discovered a “security breach” in its payroll data system that threatens the release of district employees’ personal information, such as names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Also, the banking account numbers of employees who use direct deposit “have been compromised,” the district said…
Chaminade posted Social Security numbers of thousands of students online
Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students, on its Web site for months, school officials said today. The posting of a report with the information was discovered Wednesday and the report was taken off the Web site and links disabled. An investigation determined the report was placed on…
MA: Williams College laptop stolen; 750 notified
Williams College in Williamstown reports a recent laptop theft. The laptop, which was stolen when an employee left it in a parked car in Boston on October 3, contained the names and Social Security numbers of 750 individuals from 39 states and several foreign countries. The college notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and…