College Data Breaches

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1	Date Made Public	School/College Name	School or College/University	City	State	Type of breach	Public or Private?	Total Records	Information Source	Year of Breach	Description of incident

2	1/10/2005	George Mason University	College/University	Fairfax	Virginia	HACK	Public	32,000	Dataloss DB	2005	Names, photos, and Social Security numbers of 32,000 students and staff were compromised because of a hacker attack on the University's main ID server.
3	1/18/2005	University of California - San Diego	College/University	San Diego	California	HACK	Public	3,500	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker breached the security of two University computers that stored the Social Security numbers and names of students and alumni of UCSD Extension.
4	1/22/2005	University of Northern Colorado	College/University	Greeley	Colorado	PORT	Public	30,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hard drive was lost or stolen. It contained information on current and former University employees and their beneficiaries and dates back to April of 1997.Â Names, dates of birth, SSNs, addresses, bank account numbers and routing numbers may have been accessed.
5	3/3/2005	Harvard University	College/University	Cambridge	Massachusetts	HACK	Private	200	ITRC	2005	Intruder gains access to admission systems at Harvard, Stanford and other top business schools and helped applicants log on to learn whether they had been accepted weeks before they were to find out. “Dozens of business schools (list of some schools) were affected by the breach, with their web sites vulnerable for roughly nine hours before the problem was fixed.”
6	3/11/2005	Boston College	College/University	Boston	Massachusetts	HACK	Private	120,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker gained access to a phone banking database that included alumni addresses and Social Security numbers.
7	3/11/2005	University of California - Berkeley	College/University	Berkeley	California	PORT	Public	98,400	Dataloss DB	2005	A laptop containing the Social Security numbers of doctoral degree recipients from 1976 to 1999, graduate students enrolled between 1989 and 2003, and graduate school applicants between fall 2001 and spring of 2004 was stolen.Â Birth dates and addresses for about one-third of the affected people were also on the laptop.
8	3/16/2005	California State University - Chico	College/University	Chico	California	HACK	Public	59,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A university housing and food service computer server containing names and Social Security numbers of faculty, staff, students, former students, and prospective students was hacked.
9	3/20/2005	Northwestern University	College/University	Evanston	Illinois	HACK	Private	17,500	Media	2005	Hackers gained access to multiple computers and gathered user ID and password information from the University's network.Â The personal information for around 500 faculty members, 2000 staff members, and 14,000 alumni was compromised.Â
10	3/20/2005	University of Nevada - Las Vegas	College/University	Las Vegas	Nevada	HACK	Public	5,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker was caught accessing the University's server and may have gotten information from the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System (SEVIS).
11	3/25/2005	Purdue University	College/University	West Lafayette	Indiana	HACK	Public	1,200	Dataloss DB	2005	Computers in the College of Liberal Arts' Theater Dept. were hacked, exposing personal information of employees, students, graduates, and business affiliates.
12	4/5/2005	University of California - Davis	College/University	Davis	California	HACK	Public	1,100	Dataloss DB	2005	The names and Social Security numbers of students, faculty, visiting speakers and staff may have been compromised when a hacker accessed a main computer.
13	4/6/2005	University of California - San Francisco	College/University	San Francisco	California	HACK	Public	7,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A server in the accounting and personnel departments was hacked. It contained information on 7,000 students, faculty, and staff members. The affected individuals were notified March 23.
14	4/11/2005	Tufts University	College/University	Medford	Massachusetts	HACK	Private	106,000	Dataloss DB	2005	The University's donor database was breached sometime in late 2004. Â The database was managed by a software company for nonprofit organizations named RuffaloCODY. Â Letters were sent to the alumni who may have had their personal information stolen.
15	4/21/2005	Carnegie Mellon University	College/University	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	HACK	Private	19,000	Dataloss DB	2005	The compromised information included Social Security numbers and grades from master's alumni classes 1997 through 2004, job offer information from master's alumni classes 1985 through 2004, contact information for all alumni, and Social Security numbers and grades from doctoral students enrolled between 1998 and 2004.Â Between 5,000 and 6,000 of those affected had their credit card information and Social Security numbers compromised. Emails and letters were sent to those who were affected.
16	4/26/2005	Michigan State University's Wharton Center	College/University	East Lansing	Michigan	HACK	Public	40,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker may have stolen the credit card information of visitors attending a performing arts venue.Â Warnings were sent to Wharton visitors who used their credit cards anytime between September of 2003 and the incident.
17	4/28/2005	Georgia Southern University	College/University	Stateboro	Georgia	HACK	Public	20,000	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers accessed a University server which contained thousands of credit card and Social Security numbers collected over three years.Â Students who received bookstore credit through scholarship or financial aid between the fall 2003 and spring of 2005 semesters, and anyone who made credit purchases at campus stores, stadium, or website are at risk.Â Email alerts were sent to students and alumni.
18	4/29/2005	Florida International University	College/University	Miami	Florida	HACK	Public	0	ITRC	2005	Orlando Sun-Sentinel reports “recent computer break-in” potentially compromises personal data of students, professors and staffers. School says electronic intruders apparently dialed into FIU's computers from Europe. According to the Register the hacker had access to the user name and password for 165 computers at the University.
19	4/29/2005	Oklahoma State University	College/University	Stillwater	Oklahoma	PORT	Public	37,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A laptop used for student job placement seminars was lost or stolen.Â It contained the Social Security numbers of current and former students.
20	5/5/2005	Purdue University	College/University	West Lafayette	Indiana	HACK	Public	11,360	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers accessed a program which contained University credit card information and the Social Security numbers of current and former employees. Letters were sent to employees and former employees.
21	5/11/2005	Stanford University	College/University	Stanford	California	HACK	Private	9,900	Dataloss DB	2005	The University's Career Development Center was hacked. This exposed the names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information of users. Names and credit card information for some employers that registered with the site were also in the database.
22	5/13/2005	Hinsdale Central High School	School	Hinsdale	Illinois	INSD	Public	2400	ITRC	2005	Two students are accused of hacking into a school database that contained the Social Security numbers of all of the school’s students and staff.
23	5/18/2005	Jackson Community College	College/University	Jackson	Michigan	HACK	Public	8,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker may have downloaded the passwords and Social Security numbers of employees and students.Â The College sent new, high security passwords to students and employees.
24	5/18/2005	University of Iowa	College/University	Iowa City	Iowa	HACK	Public	30,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A computer containing credit card numbers and campus ID numbers for University Book Store customers was breached by a hacker.
25	5/19/2005	Valdosta State University	College/University	Valdosta	Georgia	HACK	Public	40,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A computer server containing campus ID card information and Social Security numbers was hacked. The cards were designed to be used as debit cards by students and employees.
26	5/27/2005	Cleveland State University	College/University	Cleveland	Ohio	PORT	Public	44,420	Dataloss DB	2005	A laptop containing personal information from applicants, current students, and former students was stolen from the University's admissions office.Â The information included Social Security numbers and addresses from as far back as 2001.Â Letters were sent to those affected.
27	5/27/2005	Jackson High School	School	Jackson Township	Ohio	INSD	Public	0	ITRC	2005	At least three students have been charged with illegally accessing school computers to change grades and acquire teachers’ SSNs, credit card information and addresses.
28	6/4/2005	Duke University Medical Center	College/University	Durham	North Carolina	HACK	Private	14,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker broke into the computer system, stealing thousands of passwords and fragments of Social Security numbers.Â Fourteen thousand affected people were notified, including 10,000 employees of Duke University Medical Center.
29	6/6/2005	Polk Community College - Winter Park	College/University	Winter Haven	Florida	INSD	Public	3	ITRC	2005	Professor arrested for using students’ names, SSNs to obtain department store credit cards. He allegedly had asked students to provide the data on a sign-up sheet for his class. Professor charged with stealing students' identities.
30	6/17/2005	Kent State University	College/University	Kent	Ohio	PORT	Public	1,400	Dataloss DB	2005	A laptop containing the names, Social Security numbers, and in some cases birthdays of current and former University employees was stolen from a human resources administrator's car.Â
31	6/18/2005	University of Hawaii	College/University	Honolulu	Hawaii	INSD	Public	150,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A former librarian with access to the personal information of students, faculty, staff and patrons was convicted of Social Security fraud.Â The former librarian used Social Security information to obtain fraudulent loans.Â The University used Social Security numbers to track who checked out library materials. At the time of the press release it was unclear whether any information had been stolen from the University.
32	6/22/2005	East Carolina University	College/University	Greenville	North Carolina	HACK	Public	250	ITRC	2005	Confirms May 2005 breach of an Internet server that contained SSNs, other personal information of students; says it believes the breach was limited to students and applicants for the physician assistant studies program. Computer specialists discovered the breach in May while repairing the server after complaints of slow computer speed.
33	6/25/2005	University of Connecticut	College/University	Storrs	Connecticut	HACK	Public	72,000	Dataloss DB	2005	University officials became aware of an October 26, 2003 hacking incident.Â The personal information included Social Security numbers and addresses for students, faculty, and staff.Â The University began contacting those affected in June of 2005.
34	7/1/2005	University of California San Diego	College/University	La Jolla	California	HACK	Public	3,300	Dataloss DB	2005	A University server was hacked in April.Â The server contained Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and credit card numbers from people who attended or worked at UCSD Extension between the time of the incident and 2000.Â UCSD contacted those who were affected two months after the incident.
35	7/5/2005	Brigham Young University	College/University	Provo	Utah	HACK	Private	600	ITRC	2005	University confirms a hacker in April monitored e-mail activity and recorded keystrokes of students who used four computers in an openaccess lab.
36	7/6/2005	Iowa State University	College/University	Ames	Iowa	DISC	Public	4,700	ITRC	2005	Confirms the 7/6 discovery of a breach of its network exposing the SSNs and/or credit card numbers of Alumni Association customers since 2004.
37	7/7/2005	Michigan State University	College/University	East Lansing	Michigan	HACK	Public	27,000	Dataloss DB	2005	Student information was compromised during an attack on the College of Education server.Â The information included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, student courses, and personal identification numbers.Â The breach occurred in April and students were emailed in July.
38	7/12/2005	University of Southern California	College/University	Los Angeles	California	DISC	Private	270,000	Security Breach Letter	2005	A reporter contacted USC based on an individual's claim to be able to access personal information on college applicants online.Â USC removed the site pending investigation and sent letters to affected individuals.
39	7/14/2005	University of Colorado	College/University	Denver	Colorado	HACK	Public	900	ITRC	2005	Breach of server in the Visual Resource Center of the College of Architecture and Planning exposes names and SSNs of students and faculty.
40	7/20/2005	University of Colorado	College/University	Denver	Colorado	HACK	Public	42,000	ITRC	2005	Breach of Wardenburg Health Center computer server exposes names, SSNs, ID numbers, addresses, and birthdates of students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
41	7/30/2005	Austin Peay State University	College/University	Clarksville	Tennessee	DISC	Public	1,500	Dataloss DB	2005	The University removed student Social Security numbers, grade point averages and names that were accidentally posted. A student alerted the University to the problem after searching his name and finding the information on the website. A school employee put the internal documents on the website to email other staff members the information, but forgot to remove the information from the website.
42	7/30/2005	California State University - Dominguez Hills	College/University	Carson	California	HACK	Public	9,613	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers accessed several computers containing personal information such as names and Social Security numbers.Â The students who were affected were emailed.
43	7/31/2005	California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) - Pomona	College/University	Pomona	California	HACK	Public	31,077	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers gained access to two computers containing names, Social Security numbers and transfer records.Â Applicants, current students, current and former faculty, and staff were affected.
44	8/2/2005	University of Colorado	College/University	Denver	Colorado	HACK	Public	36,000	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers accessed files containing names, photographs, Social Security numbers, and University meal card information.Â Around 7,000 staff members, 29,000 current students, and some former students were affected.
45	8/4/2005	Anderson College	College/University	Anderson	South Carolina	PHYS	Private	834	Dataloss DB	2005	A bag with student resident hall assignments was found on campus. The paperwork also had the students' Social Security numbers. The documents were destroyed and a new program that will prevent unauthorized faculty and staff from accessing student Social Security numbers was developed.
46	8/5/2005	Madison Area Technical College	College/University	Madison	Wisconsin	PHYS	Public	100	Dataloss DB	2005	A news crew found around 100 applications in a MATC dumpster. The applications showed names, contact information, Social Security numbers, birth dates, academic records and canceled checks. The applications and transcripts go back to at least 2002. The College agreed to lock the dumpster and destroy documents in a trash compactor on a more frequent basis. It did not state that it would begin shredding documents before dumping them.
47	8/9/2005	Aims Community College	College/University	Greeley	Colorado	STAT	Public	2000	ITRC	2005	Confirms on Sept. 12 the theft of a computer containing names and SSNs of students in fire science and emergency services programs morethan a month prior.
48	8/9/2005	Sonoma State University	College/University	Rohnert Park	California	HACK	Public	61,709	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers broke into a computer system and may have accessed the names and Social Security numbers of people who applied, attended, or worked at the University between 1995 and 2002.Â University officials attempted to notify those who were affected.
49	8/9/2005	University of Utah	College/University	Salt Lake City	Utah	HACK	Public	100,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A server containing library archival databases was hacked.Â The server included names and Social Security numbers of former University employees.Â The University issued a warning that people may try to get personal information by posing as University officials involved in the investigation.
50	8/10/2005	University of North Texas	College/University	Denton	Texas	HACK	Public	38,607	Dataloss DB	2005	A server containing housing records, financial aid inquiries, and in some cases credit card numbers was hacked.Â UNT sent letters to current, former, and prospective students whose information may have been accessed.
51	8/17/2005	California State University - Stanislaus	College/University	Turlock	California	HACK	Public	877	Dataloss DB	2005	The names and Social Security numbers of student workers were exposed during a hacker attack.Â The student workers were contacted by the University.
52	8/19/2005	University of Colorado	College/University	Denver	Colorado	HACK	Public	49,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker may have gained access to personal information from June of 1999 to May of 2001, and fall of 2003 to summer of 2005.Â The information included current and former student names, Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers.Â The University contacted individuals who were affected.
53	8/27/2005	University of Florida, Health Sciences Center, ChartOne	College/University	Gainesville	Florida	PORT	Public	3,851	Dataloss DB	2005	A contractor's laptop containing patient names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and medical record numbers was stolen.Â A letter was sent to the affected patients.
54	8/30/2005	California State University, Chancellor's Office	College/University	Long Beach	California	HACK	Public	154	Dataloss DB	2005	A computer virus attack exposed names and Social Security numbers. Those affected included two financial aid administrators and 152 students enrolled at various Cal State Universities.Â Those affected were contacted.
55	8/30/2005	Stark State College of Technology	College/University	North Canton	Ohio	DISC	Public	7,058	Dataloss DB	2005	Students attempting to access their grades, financial aid information and academic standing were able to view the information of other students. Social Security numbers, GPA, and course enrollment were viewable. A glitch is believed to be the source of the problem.
56	9/6/2005	University of Delaware	College/University	Newark	Delaware	STAT	Public	343	ITRC	2005	Confirms the December 2004 theft of three computers, one of which contained Department of Communications’ students’ names, SSNs.
57	9/10/2005	Kent State University	College/University	Kent	Ohio	STAT	Public	100,000	Dataloss DB	2005	Five desktop computers were stolen from the locked offices of two deans. Names, Social Security numbers, and grades were on the computers.Â The information goes back to 2000 for students and 2002 for instructors.Â Affected students and professors were alerted by the University.
58	9/15/2005	Miami University	College/University	Hamilton	Ohio	DISC	Public	21,762	Dataloss DB	2005	A report containing Social Security numbers and grades of students was accessible online for three years.Â The University is attempting to contact those affected via letters and emails.Â A graduate alerted the University to the exposure after running a Google.com search of her name.
59	9/22/2005	City University of New York	College/University	New York	New York	DISC	Public	771	Dataloss DB	2005	An unprotected payroll link exposed personal information for Hunter College Campus Schools.Â Those affected included 335 Queens College law school students, 265 current workers and 171 former workers at local elementary and high schools.Â All affected people were contacted.
60	9/29/2005	University of Georgia	College/University	Athens	Georgia	HACK	Public	1,600	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker may have accessed the names and Social Security numbers of at least 1,600 people working for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.Â The University is attempting to contact individuals who may have been affected.
61	10/15/2005	Montclair State University	College/University	Montclair	New Jersey	DISC	Public	9,100	Dataloss DB	2005	Names and Social Security numbers of undergraduates were posted online for nearly four months.Â An undergraduate alerted the University after running a Google.com search of his name.Â The University warned all students of the problem.
62	10/20/2005	Monmouth University	College/University	West Long Branch	New Jersey	DISC	Private	677	Dataloss DB	2005	The names and Social Security numbers of 677 students were posted online for over four months. Â The University corrected the error and notified students after a student notified them of the problem. Â A glitch seems to have caused the information to be found through a simple Internet search.
63	10/20/2005	Vermont Technical College	College/University	Randolph Center	Vermont	DISC	Public	1100	Dataloss DB	2005	Names, Social Security numbers, addresses, SAT scores and ethnicityÂ of all students enrolled during 2003 were posted online from January 2004 until the mistake was discovered in October of 2005. Â Someone accidentally sent the data to a publicly accessible place.
64	10/29/2005	University of Tennessee	College/University	Knoxville	Tennessee	DISC	Public	1,900	Dataloss DB	2005	Nineteen hundred students and employees had their names and Social Security numbers posted on the Internet from spring of 2004 until the discovery in October of 2005. Â A student searched her name and found it listed with her Social Security number on a UT email discussion group site. Â Information pertaining to individuals who had either paid or owed small amounts of money to the University was shared among 10 employees and the information technology office. Â The information was mistakenly coded as public rather than private.
65	10/31/2005	University of Virginia	College/University	Charlottesville	Virginia	DISC	Public	2,600	ITRC	2005	Discloses that names and SSNs of students and contractors of the University Housing Division were accidentally accessible via the Internet. The information was stored on a public website.
66	11/4/2005	University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine	College/University	Los Angeles	California	STAT	Private	50,000	Security Breach Letter	2005	A computer server containing names and Social Security numbers of patients, donors and employees was stolen from a campus computer room.
67	11/11/2005	Georgia Tech	College/University	Atlanta	Georgia	STAT	Public	13,000	Dataloss DB	2005	On October 16 of 2005 computers were stolen from campus which contained the names, Social Security numbers, addresses and birth dates of current and prospective students. Notifications were sent to those who were affected.
68	11/18/2005	Indiana University - Kelley School of Business	College/University	Indianapolis	Indiana	HACK	Public	5,278	Dataloss DB	2005	A hacker may have accessed the names, Social Security numbers and grades of students who enrolled in Introduction to Business courses between 2001 and 2005. The computer may have been hacked and installed with malware as early as August. A representative believes the breach occurred because the files were stored on a computer that did not have current anti-virus and system-protection software.
69	11/23/2005	University of Delaware	College/University	Newark	Delaware	HACK	Public	952	Dataloss DB	2005	Two separate departments were breached by hacking within a short period of time. Â A School of Education computer with the names and Social Security numbers of 772 students registered in online education courses was attacked in late August. Â A Department of English computer that had the Social Security numbers of 180 faculty, graduate assistant and other teaching staff from the department was also hacked in August. Â The larger breach appears to be the result of someone attempting to establish an illegal movie sharing system. Â The smaller breach was a possible attempt to log onto and control one server in order to gain control over servers of other campuses. Â Those affected received notification and Social Security numbers have been removed from both servers.
70	12/1/2005	University of San Diego	College/University	San Diego	California	HACK	Private	7,800	Dataloss DB	2005	Hackers gained access to computers containing personal income tax data, including Social Security numbers, names, and addresses.Â Faculty members, students and vendors had their information compromised and were notified by the University.
71	12/2/2005	Cornell University	College/University	Ithaca	New York	HACK	Private	900	Dataloss DB	2005	The University discovered a security breach last summer that exposed names, addresses, Social Security numbers, bank names and account numbers.
72	12/7/2005	Idaho State University, Office of Institutional Research	College/University	Pocatello	Idaho	HACK	Public	100	Dataloss DB	2005	ISU discovered a security breach in a server containing archival information about students, faculty, and staff, including names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and grades. Anyone who was a student or employee between 1995 and 2005 could be affected.
73	12/8/2005	J-Sargeant Reynolds Community College	College/University	Richmond	Virginia	DISC	Public	26,000	Dataloss DB	2005	The names, Social Security numbers and addresses of students taking non-credit classes from 2000 to 2003 were posted online for months. Â The information was compiled for a mailing list, but an employee posted it on the College's server. Â A student informed officials of the mistake after accessing the information online. Â The College began the process of removing the information from the web.
74	12/8/2005	San Antonio Independent School District	School	San Antonio	Texas	PORT	Public	1,000	ITRC	2005	Stolen laptop containing teachers information from trunk of unlocked car. Names, ss # and birthdates were on the laptop.
75	12/12/2005	Iowa State University	College/University	Ames	Iowa	HACK	Public	5,500	Dataloss DB	2005	At least one ISU computer was hacked. Social Security numbers and encrypted credit card numbers may have been obtained. Between 2,000 and 2,500 Social Security numbers are at risk and between 2,300 and 3,000 credit card numbers are at risk.Â Student, alumni, employee and volunteer information was put at risk.Â
76	12/15/2005	University of Ohio - Dayton	College/University	Dayton	Ohio	DISC	Private	74	ITRC	2005	Discloses a programming error exposed on Internet the names, SSNs and other personal data of applicants to university’s pre-med program.
77	12/16/2005	Colorado Technical University (CTU)	College/University	Colorado Springs	Colorado	DISC	Private	300	Security Breach Letter	2005	An email was erroneously sent which contained names, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and class schedules.
78	1/20/2006	University of Kansas (Kansas University)	College/University	Lawrence	Kansas	DISC	Public	9,200	Dataloss DB	2006	A computer file with sensitive personal information was accessible to the public.Â Students who applied and paid an application fee online between April 29, 2001 and December 16, 2005 had their names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers exposed.
79	1/23/2006	University of Notre Dame	College/University	Notre Dame	Indiana	HACK	Private	0	ITRC	2006	Hackers may have accessed Social Security numbers, credit card information and check images of people who donated to the University between November 22 of 2005 and January 12 of 2006.
80	1/25/2006	University of Delaware	College/University	Newark	Delaware	STAT	Public	159	Dataloss DB	2006	Two separate breaches occurred on the campus during November and December. A computer from the School of Urban Affairs and Public policy was hacked and a back-up hard drive was stolen from the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology. The hacking incident occurred between November 22 and 26 and exposed the Social Security numbers of 159 graduate students. The hard drive theft occurred between December 16 and 18 and the personal information of an unknown number of people was exposed.
81	1/26/2006	College of St. Scholastica	College/University	Duluth	Minnesota	STAT	Private	12,000	Dataloss DB	2005	A computer was stolen from a locked office in the College's information Technology Department on or around December 24. The computer had Social Security numbers and names of current and former students. The thief was caught and claims that none of the personal information was used.
82	1/31/2006	Purdue University	College/University	West Lafayette	Indiana	DISC	Public	240	ITRC	2006	Purdue University has successfully contacted about 180 of the 240 students and former students whose personal information may have been compromised in the school's latest security breach. Class rosters and a grade sheet for three 100-level math classes were found when an alumnus did an Internet search of his name and Social Security number.
83	2/1/2006	University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS)	College/University	Colorado Springs	Colorado	HACK	Public	2,500	Dataloss DB	2006	Names, Social Security numbers, addresses and birth dates of current and former employees were accessed.Â A computer in the Personnel Department was hacked and infected with a virus.Â People employed by the University at anytime between the attack and 2004 are at risk.Â The virus infected other computers at the University and was part of a worldwide attack.
84	2/15/2006	Old Dominion University	College/University	Norfolk	Virginia	DISC	Public	601	Dataloss DB	2006	An instructor posted a class roster containing names and Social Security numbers to a publicly accessible website.Â The information was posted during the spring semester of 2004.Â Letters were sent to affected students which contained websites where the students could check to see if they had been victims of identity theft.
85	2/18/2006	University of Northern Iowa	College/University	Cedar Falls	Iowa	HACK	Public	6,000	Dataloss DB	2006	A laptop computer holding W-2 forms of student employees and faculty was illegally accessed.Â The University warned students and faculty to monitor their bank accounts.
86	3/3/2006	Metropolitan State College of Denver	College/University	Denver	Colorado	PORT	Public	93,000	Security Breach Letter	2006	A laptop containing student information was stolen.Â The information included names and Social Security numbers of students who registered for Metropolitan State courses between the 1996 fall semester and the 2005 summer semester.
87	3/5/2006	Georgetown University	College/University	Washington	District of Columbia	HACK	Private	41,000	Dataloss DB	2006	A server was attacked that housed personal information including names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of District seniors served by the Office on Aging.Â Georgetown managed the server as part of a grant to manage information services provided by the D. C. Office of Aging.Â
88	3/10/2006	Long Island University, Alpha Chi National Honors Society	College/University	Brooklyn	New York	DISC	Private	51	Dataloss DB	2006	Students who applied to join Alpha Chi had their Social Security numbers and other personal information sent to an Honors student email list. The email was recalled immediately, but anyone who opened it right away would have been able to access the applicant information. The advisor responsible for the mistake asked the National Office to consider abandoning the use of Social Security numbers.
89	3/10/2006	University of Delaware	College/University	Newark	Delaware	DISC	Public	51	ITRC	2006	’A computer programming error led to the glitch,’ University of Delaware spokesman Neil Thomas said. The Social Security numbers of Dougherty and 50 other UD alumni who had posted ads on the site were displayed between 3 and 7 a.m. during February and the first two days of March, he said.
90	3/13/2006	Kent State University	College/University	Kent	Ohio	HACK	Public	19000	ITRC	2006	At Kent State University in Ohio, cybercrooks accessed a database containing names and Social Security numbers of 19,000 applicants.
91	3/16/2006	Pekin High School	School	Pekin	Illinois	DISC	Public	2170	ITRC	2006	Social Security numbers and other personal information for more than 2,000 Pekin High School students were mistakenly made accessible on the school district's Web site, officials said.
92	3/24/2006	California State University - Dominguez Hills	College/University	Carson	California	PORT	Public	2,486	Dataloss DB	2006	The theft of a laptop resulted in the exposure of student and potential student personal information. Â The University tightened access to campus servers and the campus network.Â
93	3/24/2006	Vermont State Colleges	College/University	Waterbury	Vermont	PORT	Public	20,000	ITRC	2006	A laptop containing Social Security numbers and payroll data of students, faculty and staff associated with the five-college system was stolen.Â It contained information from as long ago as 2000.
94	3/25/2006	University of Southern Mississippi	College/University	Hattiesburg	Mississippi	DISC	Public	2,100	ITRC	2006	As many as 2,100 people involved with the University of Southern Mississippi's teacher mentor program are being notified that their Social Security numbers and other personal information were accidentally posted on the Internet. A database list containing information on current and former teacher mentors since 1999 had been on the Internet for eight days in February, the university said in a prepared statement Friday.
95	3/29/2006	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	College/University	Lincoln	Nebraska	DISC	Public	342	Dataloss DB	2006	Students from the College of Engineering had Social Security numbers, email addresses, grade point averages and other personal information posted online. The information may have been posted since November of 2004 and was first noticed in summer of 2005. The problem was finally fixed during the week of March 29 when the file was removed from the Google server.
96	4/1/2006	Shorter College	College/University	Rome	Georgia	HACK	Private	0	Dataloss DB	2006	A student was arrested for computer theft and hacking the College's computer network. Â The student may have accessed student, staff and faculty information.
97	4/9/2006	University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey	College/University	Newark	New Jersey	HACK	Public	1,850	Dataloss DB	2006	Hackers accessed Social Security numbers, loan information, and other confidential financial information of students and alumni.
98	4/14/2006	University of South Carolina	College/University	Columbia	South Carolina	DISC	Public	1,400	Dataloss DB	2006	A department chair distributing information about summer courses sent an email containing sensitive information.Â A database containing Social Security numbers of students was mistakenly added as an attachment and e-mailed to classmates.
99	4/21/2006	University of Alaska, Fairbanks	College/University	Fairbanks	Alaska	HACK	Public	38,941	Dataloss DB	2006	A hacker had access to names, Social Security numbers, and partial e-mail addresses of current and former students, faculty, and staff.Â The University reported that it would not contact those affected after a first and second notification.Â Anyone claiming to be from the University after these notifications should be viewed with suspicion.
100	4/23/2006	University of Texas McCombs School of Business	College/University	Austin	Texas	HACK	Public	197,000	Dataloss DB	2006	Foreign hackers accessed records containing names, biographical information and, in some cases, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of current and prospective students, alumni, faculty members, corporate recruiters and staff members.