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IA: UI contacts former students after laptop theft
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:12:21 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071008/NEWS01/71008002/1079 The University of Iowa is informing 184 former and current students that their grade information was contained on a laptop computer stolen from a former teaching assistant now living in Arizona. The theft of the computer, which occurred last month in a break-in of the instructor's home, contained class records such as attendance, test scores, and grades of students who took his philosophy courses at the UI between 2002 and 2006. Social security numbers (SSNs) were also present in 100 of the records. UI Information Technology Security Officer Jane Drews analyzed backup copies of the files and found them an unlikely source for committing identity theft. "The instructor buried the files in his directory structure and obfuscated the social security numbers," Drews said. "While they were not encrypted, popular SSN scanning tools were unable to detect SSNs in any of the five files." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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