National University of Singapore
National University of Singapore Email Leaks Alumni Data
Submitted by Adam Dodge on Mon, 2009-04-20 06:01Quick Facts
- Date: 4/20/2009
- Institution: National University of Singapore
- Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
- Number Affected: 15,794
- Source: ESI
- Abstract Source: Asia One
Abstract
The National University of Singapore is reassessing its information security policies after an email sent to 450 individuals accidentally contained alumni information. The email, sent by the NUS Career Center to a number of alumni, contained a file that had name, home address, subject major and phone number information 15,794 NUS alumni. This incident involves alumni that have graduated from NUS from 1993 through last year. The staff member was using an old email as a template and forgot to remove the file before sending. NSU is implementing new security controls such as requiring at least two staff members to review emails to stakeholder groups, password-protecting database access and restricting how passwords are distributed.
