Former UIC Accounting students alerted to 2002 personal security breach

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.infosecnews.org/former-uic-accounting-students-alerted-to-2002-personal-security-breach/

By William Knowles 
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
July 11, 2014

InfoSec News has learned that notification letters have been sent last 
week to some former students of the University of Illinois at Chicago 
College of Business Administration whose personal information, including 
Social Security number, was recently found to have been publicly 
accessible on an unsecured website dating back to 2002.

Two documents were accessible: a class roster from a Special Topics in 
Accounting course, ACTG 594, from spring semester of 2002; and the 
advising list from spring 2002 for all junior and senior accounting 
majors.

University staff "took immediate action to remove the files from the 
website and sever connections to the documents" the letter said.

The university sent the letter to every mailing address it had on file for 
each individual. Because the university cannot verify that it was 
successful in reaching all affected parties, this news release is being 
issued in accordance with Section 10 of the 2006 Illinois Personal 
Information Protection Act.

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