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Pa. university warns students of privacy breach
From: Erica Absetz <eabsetz () opensecurityfoundation org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:57:18 -0500
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pa-university-warns-students-of-privacy-breach-4224641.php CHEYNEY, Pa. (AP) — Officials at Cheyney University are urging students to check their credit reports after an inadvertent release of their personal data, including Social Security numbers. The historically black college near Philadelphia apologized to students in a letter sent Friday. Cheyney says it's using a credit monitoring firm to prevent misuse of the information. The university says an administrative email sent to all students on Thursday accidentally included a file with personal data. The 240-page file contained names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 2,100 current and former students. Cheyney is one of 14 state-owned universities in Pennsylvania. It's located about 20 miles west of Philadelphia. _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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