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…
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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…
EXCLUSIVE: UW-Madison discovers 40 computers used for file-sharing
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…
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…