University of Florida has achieved unwanted notoriety for their numerous data breaches over the last year, and the news presented to the university’s trustees yesterday can only worsen the school’s reputation. (more…)
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University of Florida official reveals ID theft cases, warns of more to come
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Welcome to the University of Identity Theft
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009The 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…)
University of Florida reports yet another data breach
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009After 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, 2008Nobody 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…)
