(update): Campus radio station accuses BU of lax security with personal information

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090312/NEWS01/903120377

An incident that a campus radio station is calling a "titanic breach of 
security" is now being treated as a crime by Binghamton University 
authorities.

Law enforcement officials have launched a criminal investigation after 
learning a reporter from WHRW gained access to a storage room where 
documents containing personal information -- such as Social Security 
numbers and credit card numbers -- were kept. The Broome County District 
Attorney has been consulted about possible charges, university spokeswoman 
Gail Glover said.

The station's news director said the door to the room in the Lecture Hall 
complex wasn't locked, and its latch was taped so it would remain open. In 
the room, the reporter found file cabinets and piles of documents that 
contained personal information of students and their parents dating back 
at least a decade, said Robert Glass, news director for WHRW.

"Despite having a record of jeopardizing personal information and 
promising that it would take extensive measures to make sure it would 
never happen again," university officials still failed to secure the 
private documents, he said. Now, they're trying to blame the person who 
found it.

Glass declined to identify the reporter.

[...]
_______________________________________________
Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org)

CREDANT Technologies, a leader in data security, offers advanced data encryption solutions.
Protect sensitive data on desktops, laptops, smartphones and USB sticks transparently 
across your enterprise to ensure regulatory compliance.
http://www.credant.com/stopdataloss