[Dataloss] Illinois university hit with security breach

[lyger]

The original estimate was "up to 240,000".  Apparently they found some 
duplicates in the records, which goes back to the previous discussion of 
"records" versus "unique individuals".


On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Richard Forno wrote:

": " Illinois university hit with security breach
": " 
": " By Dawn Kawamoto
": " http://news.com.com/Illinois+university+hit+with+security+breach/2100-7349_3
": " -6090860.html
": " 
": " Story last modified Wed Jul 05 16:14:35 PDT 2006
": " 
": " Western Illinois University is notifying more than 180,000 people that their
": " personal data is at risk after hackers entered its networks.
": " 
": " The university said it mailed the last of its notifications on Monday to
": " people whose Social Security number, credit card account number and other
": " sensitive information were on the student service servers in the security
": " breach.