Boxes Containing Sensitive Ryerson University Documents Left In Empty, Unlocked Offices
By Adam Dodge - Posted on October 14th, 2008
Quick Facts
- Date: 10/14/2008
- Institution: Ryerson University
- Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
- Number Affected: Unknown
- Source: ESI
- Abstract Source: The Eyeopener Online
Abstract
Ryerson University is currently investigating how boxes containing sensitive documents could have been left unsecured in empty offices. The boxes, located in Kerr Hall South, contained payroll stubs, student numbers, grades, exams, staff tenure reports, and resumes. The boxes themselves contained labels such as "shred" and "confidential". The offices where the boxes were found were last used by the industrial engineering department in late 2007. According to Heather Driscoll, the university's FIPPA coordinator, it doesn't matter if the university can tell definitively whether or not anyone read the documents. For Driscoll the problem is that the documents were left unsecured in the first place.
Tagged: Ryerson University
• 2008
• Educational Information
• Educational Security Incidents (ESI)
• Financial Information
• Personally Identifying Information
• Unauthorized Disclosure
