Educational Security Incidents (ESI)

Quick Facts

• Date: 1/11/2008
• Institution: California State University, Stanislaus
• Type of Incident: Penetration
• Number Affected: Unknown
• Source: ESI
• Abstract Source: Central Valley Business Times

Abstract
California State University, Stanislaus officials announced today that a dining vendor's computer system was breached exposing student credit card and bank card information to an unknown attacker. The information on the server in question includes credit card numbers, cardholder names and card expiration dates. The exact number of individual affected and the nature of the breach is still under investigation according to university officials. The university police department learned about fraudulent activity of credit cards used at CSU Stanislaus back in November. The investigation led the police to the breached vendor system.

Quick Facts

• Date: 5/26/2006
• Institution: California State University, Stanislaus
• Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
• Number Affected: 1,294
• Source: Attrition.org
• Abstract Source: CSU Stanislaus Newsline

Abstract
CSU Stanislaus is alerting 1,294 students that their personal information might have been exposed after a file containing student names, addresses, employer information and Social Security numbers was discovered to be available in Google's cache. The file in question was initially leaked to the Google search engine in October 2005 but was quickly removed from both the CSU server and Google's search index. However, it appears that the file remained accessible to all through Google's Google Cache. CSU Stanislaus is currently working with the affected students, offering them one year of free credit monitoring with Equifax.