UT Arlington File Server with Records on 27,000 Breached Four Times

Submitted by Adam Dodge on Fri, 2010-07-23 05:19

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The University of Texas, Arlington recently notified students, faculty and staff after the breach of a file server containing personal information. The file server, used by the university's Student Health Center, contained the names, addresses, prescription names, amount spent and diagnostic codes of 27,000 students, faculty and staff between 2000 and June 2010, including 2,048 Social Security numbers. The compromise was discovered on June 21, 2010 by IT staff and an investigation uncovered the server had been breached on four occasions between February 2009 and February 2010. According to the university, there were no credit card or other medial record information on the file server. So far, the university has notified 21,554 of the affected individuals and is working on notifying the remaining individuals through alternative methods. The university is offering free credit monitoring services to the 2,048 individuals whose Social Security numbers may have been exposed. UT Arlington has setup a hotline - 800-913-3055 - and web site www.uta.edu/data/index.php - to help provide more information to those affected.