More Colleges Suffered Data Losses in 2007 Than in 2006, Study Finds

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2734

More than a million private records of students were compromised in 
campus-security breaches in the United States last year, and the number of 
colleges reporting such incidents was far higher than the previous year, 
according to a study that analyzed reports on computer security by the 
news media and computer-security organizations.

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The study was done by Adam D. Dodge of the Educational Security Incidents 
Web site. The project started while Mr. Dodge was a graduate student in 
computer-security at Norwich University. He now works as the assistant 
director for information security at Eastern Illinois University, but he 
says his work on the report is not connected with his role there.

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