Posts Tagged ‘University of Florida College of Dentistry’

University of Florida reports yet another data breach

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

After hearing so much about data breaches that affect tens of millions of consumers, we become a little numb. News of a data breach involving only 441,035 people barely seems like newsworthy at all.

But what if those same 441,035 people were involved in six separate data breaches originating at the same place within 15 months?

That’s the story from the University of Florida. Since November 2007 UF has had a half dozen data breaches. In the last three months alone, they’ve been successfully hacked three times. (more…)

UF dental school data breach: 330,000 more people REALLY hate going to the dentist now.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Nobody likes going to the dentist: the whine of the drill, the scraping of metal against bone, and metal against flesh—who likes that? Well, for more than 300,000 people who get their dental work done at University of Florida, there’s another reason to hate going to the dentist. (more…)