MyLaptopGPS » VCU http://blog.mylaptopgps.com Laptop Computer Security Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:50:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rip of the Week: Oops, We Did it Again: 17,214 SSNs Exposed http://blog.mylaptopgps.com/2009/06/11/rip-of-the-week-oops-we-did-it-again-17214-ssns-exposed/ http://blog.mylaptopgps.com/2009/06/11/rip-of-the-week-oops-we-did-it-again-17214-ssns-exposed/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:21:46 +0000 Dan Yost http://blog.mylaptopgps.com/?p=510 In yet another verse out of the same, long song, “Virginia Commonwealth University is notifying 17,214 current and former students of a security breach that may have exposed their Social Security numbers.”

The data were breached on a stolen computer, though the article doesn’t make clear whether the machine was a laptop or a desktop. In any case, it was:

  1. Unencrypted
  2. Not trackable
  3. Not SafeTagged

Surprised?

Additionally, “an additional 22,500 students are being notified that their names and test scores may have also been on the computer. No Social Security numbers were recorded with those names, but computer-generated student ID numbers may have been.”

Security matters.

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