Posts Tagged ‘Ohio University’

Welcome to the University of Identity Theft

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

The experts will tell you, when you’re choosing a university or college, look for a good fit, don’t limit your search to the name brand schools, ask the admissions office about scholarship and grant opportunities.

Here’s another tip: Check out their data breach record. Institutions of higher learning reported 173 data breaches in 2008, an increase of 24.5% over the previous year. More than 16 million individual records were exposed, but there were 18 incidents where the total number of records wasn’t reported. (more…)