Quick Facts

• Date: 4/18/2010
• Institution: Olympic College
• Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
• Number Affected: Unknown
• Source: DataBreaches.net
• Abstract Source: The Olympian

Abstract
An Olympic College student recently uncovered unsecured student information was available on the college's intranet. Jacob Core, a student at Olympic College, discovered a file containing student names, ID numbers and the last four Social Security numbers on an unsecured server while exploring the architecture of the network. Core contacted Jon Bowers, student body president, who immediately contacted the college's IT Department. Once contacted the file was removed. An investigation discovered that an employee at the college moved the file to the server believing it was a secure storage location.

Quick Facts

• Date: 10/14/2008
• Institution: Olympic College
• Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
• Number Affected: Unknown
• Source: Pogo Was Right
• Abstract Source: The Olympian of Olympic College

Abstract
Olympic College officials are currently investigating how at least four web sites leaked student information to the Web. The college found out about the incident after a student searched for her name in Google and found a class roster for a computer class the student took in 2007. Initially the blame for the leak was placed on the professors responsible for the web sites. However, according to one professor, these web sites were supposed to be part of an Intranet only accessible to Olympic College individuals. However, Jack Hanson admitted that the half hour training session faculty received on might not have been adequate. According to Hanson "I allowed a design that was too complex and permissions were set wrong and that was the problem".