The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of nearly 12,000 current and former University of Florida students were accidentally posted online. The university has mailed notification letters to 11,300 students whose information may have been compromised, according to this Associated Press article on FOXNews.com. Officials could not find contact information for another 570 students.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that the breach occurred when the Office for Academic Support and Institutional Service created online records of students. Student Employees wanted to work with the information from off-campus locations, but failed to install appropriate security measures.
The information has been removed, and the university doesn’t believe any of the data was used inappropriately.
The University of Florida isn’t the only college to make headlines for security breaches. Earlier this week, we reported about a stolen Stanford University laptop that compromised the information of 72,000 current and former employees. And 155 medical and graduate students at the University of California-Irvine were victims of a scam after hackers used information from their health insurance plans to collect tax returns.
By Susan Hall
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