[Dataloss] OU reports drop in donations in wake of data thefts

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Courtesy InfoSec News and WK:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/15020648.htm

Associated Press
July 12, 2006

ATHENS, Ohio - The number of financial donations received by Ohio
University dropped in the two months after the school announced electronic
break-ins of its computer system.

The decline resulted from a downturn in fundraising efforts that followed
the five security breaches and a large number of first-time donors in 2005
who did not continue giving, university officials said.

About a half-dozen mailings and 3,000 fundraising telephone calls were
eliminated "in response to the increased sensitivities over the data
security issues that our alumni communicated to us," the school said in a
statement.

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