Liberty Coalition: University of Texas-Austin Profs Expose 2,490 Students’ Personal Info Online
SSNBreach.org, a project of the Liberty Coalition, reports:
In its third (and largest) breach in just a few months, the University of Texas-Austin has exposed another 2,490 students’ personal information online. More than 60 files containing student and faculty personal information were on University servers since as early as 2002, undetected by the University for more than five years. [...]
The files were posted by at least four separate professors, indicating systemic deficiencies in the way the university trains staff and scans servers for sensitive information. [...]
[The exposed data] included confidential graduate applications, personal tax returns, and student databases. Student and faculty names, addresses, 66 social security numbers, 459 partial social security numbers, phone numbers, e-mails, scores, GPA, GRE Scores, Majors, Race, Gender, GPA, phone numbers, tax information, and a wide range of other sensitive information.
More coverage here. I previously blogged about the Liberty Coalition’s exposure of a data breach in a Tennessee school district. Visit SSNBreach.org to learn more about such data breaches and the security and privacy issues associated.
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