UW-Milwaukee Professor Emailed Student Information To Geography Students
Quick Facts
- Date: 4/26/2010
- Institution: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
- Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure
- Number Affected: 33
- Source: DataBreaches.net
- Abstract Source: The UWM Post
Abstract
The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee will soon being notifying former students after an email attachment may have exposed personal information. The email message, sent by the undergraduate program chair for the Department of Geography to 97 geography students, contained an attachment with the names, GPA's and student IDs of 33 former UWM students. The university became aware of the problem after one of the students that received the email contacted the Help Desk. Once notified, the IT department took action and was able to remove the email message from email accounts of 83 of the 97 students receiving the email. The other 14 either had the email message forwarded outside of the university email system or had opened and read the message. University officials contacted these 14 individuals and most indicated they had immediately deleted the email.