US Indiana University Feb 2014 Technical Error (Q15251)
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A data breach risk event
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A data breach risk event |
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February 2014
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The names, social security numbers and addresses of 146,000 Indiana University students and recent graduates have been compromised in a data breach. People across all seven campuses who attended IU from 2011-2014 are potentially at risk. University officials say the problem wasnt a technical one, but rather human error. The Student Services database was supposed to be in an encrypted location, but instead it was being stored in an insecure location. An employee discovered the issue last week, and IU spokesman Mark Land says the university quickly secured the data the following day. Land says no humans have seen the data; it was not downloaded by anyone looking for sensitive information. However, the data did get picked up by a web crawler that mines information to improve web search capab (English)
