Back in June 2008, the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics revealed that a backup tape containing billing records, medical codes, and Social Security numbers on 2.2 million patients was stolen from the vehicle of one of their contractors, Perpetual Storage. The tape was returned a month later after those receiving the stolen tapes understood…
Category: Education Sector
Notre Dame security breach potentially affects employees
Notre Dame is warning university employees to keep an eye on their bank accounts after a security breach. Personal information of some past and current employees – including name, social security number and birth date – was accidentally put onto a public website. University spokesman Dennis Brown says the error was corrected and the information…
OH: Social security numbers found in area library books
Tim Miller reports: Folks have been warned about not giving out personal information, but never knew an old library book could hold clues to their identities. At the University of Toledo, books from the 1980s and 90s with readers’ social security numbers may still be in circulation. Today, when UT students check out a book,…
TX: Confidential Bushland ISD documents found
Mitch Roberts reports: Bushland officials are wondering if an employee or perhaps an ex-employee walked out of the office with highly confidential documents. Those documents were dropped off at Pronews 7. The documents were from the “free lunch” program from 2003 to 2006. There was a note attached claiming the documents were found at a…
Personal data of Cal Poly Pomona applicants inadvertently put online
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…
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…