A site reader alerted DataBreaches.net to a recent breach involving the Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison recently. According to the notification letter, a copy of which was provided to this site, the university notified some faculty and students that their personal information was on 40 departmental computers that had been hacked. In a…
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TN: Roane State announces 11,000 employee and student Social Security numbers stolen from employee’s car
WBIR reports: Roane State Community College has announced that the names and Social Security numbers of 9,747 current or former students were on a data storage device stolen from an employee’s vehicle, along with 1,194 current/former employees’ information. The Social Security numbers alone, with no names, were also stolen for 5,036 additional current or former…
KY: Bullitt school employees’ Social Security numbers mistakenly released
Sara Cunningham reports: A Bullitt County Public Schools employee accidentally sent an e-mail message to about 1,800 school district workers Tuesday that included the names and Social Security numbers of 676 district employees. […] The employee did not mean to include Social Security numbers, Davis said. The original message was sent at 7:47 a.m. Tuesday….
Student data stolen from National Institute of Educational Testing Service
Earlier this month, The Nation reported that Thailand’s National Institute of Educational Testing Service (“NIETS”) web site had been downed by denial of service attacks and had been offline between Wednesday through Friday. The Nation subsequently reported that NIETS learned that information about some 1,000 students were stolen by hackers in the attack. Deputy Education…
CSULA Students Exposed in Security Breach
KTLA reports: The names and social security numbers of 82 students at Cal State Los Angeles were mistakenly posted on the web, according to university officials. The students involved took computer courses, either CIS 454 or 528 in spring 2002 and CIS 283 or 585 in spring 2003, officials said. The information was mistakenly posted…
Personal data for thousands of former adult students go missing
Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…