Quick Facts

• Date: 2/9/2009
• Institution: Drake University
• Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
• Number Affected: 800
• Source: DataBreaches.net
• Abstract Source: The Times-Delphic

Abstract
Drake University announced that an email sent to the sorority and fraternity house presidents accidentally contained student grade information. The two emails, one to fraternity house presidents and the other to sorority house presidents, contained the grades for all fraternity members and sorority members respectively. In all, 800 students were affected by these emails. The emails were intended for the fraternity and sorority chapter presidents, but was sent to the wrong list. The university sent a second email to all house presidents asking them to delete the email immediately. In addition, the university with fraternity and sorority presidents requiring each of them to sign a form indicating the email and attachment had been deleted.