Schools battle personal data hacks

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07/27/05

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* Colleges and universities are finding themselves battling data
  breaches, compromised personal information
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Today's focus:

Schools battle personal data hacks

By John Cox

"It was, and is, a lot of work."

That's how University of Connecticut CIO Michael Kerntke rather
wearily summed up the school's response to a discovery in June
of a data breach that exposed the personal information of 72,000
current and former students, faculty and staff.

And UConn's breach is not even the latest in a series of
incidents that have cropped up on campuses, from small community
colleges to some of America's most prestigious schools. Michigan
State disclosed earlier this month that an attack on a server at
the College of Education might have compromised Social Security
numbers of more than 27,000 students.

And SecurityFocus.com reported two weeks ago about a programming
error in the University of Southern California's online student
application system that opened a hole into a database of
personal information. The university confirmed that the database
had about 270,000 records with names and Social Security
numbers. "However, it appears that only a small number of these
records were actually exposed," according to a university
statement.

Until recently, California was so far the only state that
requires organizations that hold such data to notify consumers,
or in this case students, when their personal information has
been exposed, even if it hasn't been read or stolen.

But UConn, like many schools, now has a policy to notify users
if such a breach exposes personal data. Current UConn students
and employees were notified via e-mail; those no longer at the
school were sent a letter. The labor involved accounted for much
of the workload, Kerntke noted.

For more on how schools are battling personal data hacks, please
see:
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