Educational Security Incidents (ESI)

Quick Facts

• Date: 8/4/2008
• Institution: Arapahoe Community College
• Type of Incident: Loss
• Number Affected: 15,000
• Source: Pogo Was Right
• Abstract Source: 9News

Abstract
Arapahoe Community College has issued alerts to students after it discovered that a flash drive containing student information has been lost or possibly stolen. The drive contain the names, address, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers on 15,000 students. The records on the drive came from the college's Corporate Learning Division and some of them dated back to 1997. Arapahoe is urging affected individuals to place a fraud alert on their credit reports. Anyone with questions is asked to contact the college at 303-797-5091. (Note: An individual claiming to be from Arapahoe Community College left a message on the news story stating that "out of the 15,000 records at risk - only 5,286 contained credit card or social security information. Only 1,200 students received customized training from this division a year and the only reason 15,000 records were in the database is because it was a compilation of 11 years." See the Abstract Source link above for full story and comment.)

Update1
Note that this information was lost or stolen from a contractor and not an Arapahoe Community College employee. The student information was contained on a flash drive that went missing while the contractor was at the Copper Mountain Resort. Special thank you to Allison Dolan for make ESI aware that this information was missing from the original abstract.