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Personal data of 15,000 TWU students made vulnerable
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:30:20 -0500 (EST)
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2006/dec/22/personal-data-15000-twu-students-made-vulnerable/ In the wake of this recent potential personal data nightmare at UT Dallas, comes one at Texas Woman's University. From a school release: Texas Womans University is notifying approximately 15,000 students that their personal data has been exposed to potential identity theft. The personal data of all students who were enrolled at TWU in the calendar year 2005 was exposed. The personal data includes names, addresses and Social Security Numbers. This exposure affects the universitys three campuses in Denton, Dallas and Houston. University officials discovered earlier this week that IRS 1098-T Tuition Statement data for 2005 was transmitted to an outside vendor via a non-secure connection. The data was briefly exposed only during transmission and is now secure. At this time TWU has no indication that this data has been accessed or used by anyone. However, the university recognizes the seriousness of this exposure and the need to inform the affected students as quickly as possible. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 515 incidents over 6 years.
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