Student SSN Breach

grp2013
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:52:57 +0000

The digits appear above students’ names but are not identified as Social Security numbers…easily visible if you know what you’re looking for…



Well, I guess everyone knows what they’re looking for now that we’ve been told what to look for… :eek:



The university is in the process of notifying students whose information was exposed



S did receive a generic email but it didn’t specifically say his SSN was included. We haven’t received this brochure yet as far as I know in order to check. We also assume that the statement that “18700 numbers printed on brochures” simply means that each student’s own number was printed on their brochure. Obviously, now that it also has their name and current address that makes individual cases of theft that much easier to pull off.

EDIT: Wife informed me we did receive it and yes, it does have his SSN on it. Lovely. Guess he’ll be signing up for the credit monitoring they will be offering.