UNL Student, Faculty, Staff Social Security Number Left Online For 2 Years
Quick Facts
- Date: 2/7/2007
- Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
- Number Affected: 72
- Source: Attrition.org
- Abstract Source: Omaha World-Herald
Abstract
University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials have announced that the university recently discovered the names and Social Security numbers of 72 employees, faculty and students were accessible online. This information was posted to an unsecured web site by a UNL employee over two years ago. The university was notified that this information was publicly accessible Monday, and quickly moved to remove the information from the university's web site. UNL officials are taking this exposure very seriously, and have already mailed out letters to the 66 students, 4 staff and 2 faculty members affected by this incident. In this letter UNL instructs these individuals where they can go to monitor their credit reports and what to look for in terms of suspicious credit activity. While the university does monitor its public web sites for Social Security numbers, these 72 went unnoticed because they did not contain the two dashes ("-") commonly found in Social Security numbers.
