Olympic College Student Data Found Exposed On Intranet
Submitted by Adam Dodge on Sun, 2010-04-18 10:45
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.