Educational Security Incidents (ESI)

Quick Facts

• Date: 1/30/2008
• Institution: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
• Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
• Number Affected: 32
• Source: SSNBreach.org
• Abstract Source: SSNBreach.org Press Release

Abstract
The Liberty Coalition recently alerted the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth that a file on the university's Computer and Information Science Department's web site contained sensitive student information. The file contained the names, grades, GPAs and socail security numbers of 32 students. The SSNs in the file were partially obscured with the first digit replaced by a zero.