Via ZDNet.com -
A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 (as reported by Stanford University) former and current Standford University employees. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I’m not positive which is more accurate at this time. Stanford’s site says that original estimates placed the number at 72,000, so I’m inclined to believe that the number is actually 62,000.
This is just the newest example of a university falling pray to data breaches… in fact, if you look through the aforementioned Privacy Rights Clearinghouse site, you’ll see numerous universities listed, with some pretty amazing numbers of records stolen.
For the record, this isn’t to point the finger at Stanford, the point of the article is simply to suggest that just like financial service organizations, health care providers, etc., schools (and I say schools since this could translate to high schools just as easily) have an amazing amount of data available and typically have less stringent security controls and governing compliance demands.
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