Stolen Yale Computers Contained 10,000 SSNs

According to Yale Daily News, Yale University vigilant 10000 current and past students, as well as 200 staff, two computers stolen from the College Presidents Office on July 17 containing its community Security numbers.

Theft and whether to expose students and staff to potential identify theft, campus representative said that the computer people password protection, thieves stole computer is very likely to sell hardware rather than data, and stealing computer typical have their own hard drives scrubbed to disguise their origin.

Contact € œthe university does not believe that there is a significant risk identity theft, because the crime is almost certainly access to hardware sales - rather than predatory data respectively on the computer, â € Yale added, said in a statement.

Nevertheless, in the Yale faculty and remind stolen records to watch their bank accounts and credit reports, and is working with those individuals answered their questions.

Icon in the Ivy League is not alone. Education security incidents (polyamide) website reported that during 2006, about 2.6 million data records were reported to have been exposed, the university in the world, and those are just the number of reported incidents.

2006 data, in 2006 in violation of colleges, universities, the right to privacy liquidation agencies report that 20% of the respondents think that because of irregularities stolen notebook computers and 17 percent from the Other stolen computer. The rest were the result of external hackers (52 %), insider misconduct (2%), and human or software incompetent (21 per cent). By the exchange of the report said that 67 illegal occurred in the education sector in 2007, so far.

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