« Previous Post | Blog Home | Next Post »
Data breach at University of Idaho
Posted on Jan 14, 2007 by Tom Fragala
70,000 people are at risk after a data theft at the University of Idaho. The breach was announced nearly two months after it happened. Spokesman Review reports
The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 70,000 students, faculty members and donors to the University of Idaho may have been stolen along with three computers over the Thanksgiving holiday, the university announced today.
The UI said it delayed announcing the information publicly at the request of police investigators, but is now notifying everyone whose personal information might have been accessed by the office where the burglary occurred.
Update: Appears this may effect a LOT more people. According to the Seattle Times "331,800 employees, students, alumni and donors Thursday that their personal information might have been compromised after three desktop computers were stolen."
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft
Tags: data security, data theft, identitytheft, idtheft, security
Comments
mighty key on Apr 20, 2007
we sent you an email about our product when we heard what had happened at your establishment last spring break/thanksgiving break aboput the theft of your computers so we wuold like for you to contact us as soon as possible so we can be some help to save your data so this unfortunate error will never happen again
Thankyou
mightykey support
Post a Comment