[Dataloss] Improper access to student PII granted, 60 mil exposed

[B.K. DeLong]

Interesting. This sounds like the Lexis/Nexis case where someone got illicit
access to a law enforcement privileged account to the service by backdooring
the computer thus essentially getting access to a huge amount of data
unchecked.

On 4/17/07, Chris Walsh <cwalsh at cwalsh.org> wrote:
>
> Report: Lenders illicitly accessing student database
> Published: 2007-04-16
>
> A database containing the personal and financial details of nearly 60
> million students had repeatedly been accessed by some lending companies in
> ways the violated federal privacy laws, the Washington Post reported on
> Sunday




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