http://www.dailycampus.com/news/university-addresses-security-breach-1.1732324 By Amy McDavitt The Daily Campus The Independent News Source of the University of Connecticut October 27, 2010 A recent security breach on the Storrs campus revealed a list of former students' names and Social Security numbers and made them available on the Internet. The university was made aware of the situation Oct. 4 after one of the individuals on the list discovered it and alerted university officials, according to university spokesperson Michael Kirk. "Once the university became aware of this, the information was removed from the Internet," Kirk said. The list was "inadvertently" made public on the Web by a faculty member who had saved a class list of one-time students that was able to be viewed online, according to Kirk. The 23 students whose names and Social Security numbers were on the list were enrolled in the class in 2000. The university sent letters to each individual offering two years of credit protection through Debix, an identity protection company, at the university's expense. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Oct 28 2010 - 23:43:38 PDT
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