[Dataloss] MT: MSU notifies students, staff of security breaches

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(somewhere in Montana, somebody is having a bad, bad week...)

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/06/news/state/20-breach.txt

Montana State University is informing 271 people that their Social 
Security numbers may have been exposed in one of three separate data 
security breaches.

On Nov. 2, it was determined that a stolen data storage device contained 
the Social Security numbers of 216 students and employees who lived in 
on-campus housing from 1998 to the spring of 2007.

In a separate incident that also occurred on Nov. 2, an independent 
security analyst informed university data security staff that an Excel 
spreadsheet with the names and Social Security numbers of 42 people - 
mostly new hires during the summer of 2006 - was available on the MSU Web 
site. The spreadsheet was immediately removed.

While investigating the Excel spreadsheet incident, MSU data-security 
staff discovered another Excel spreadsheet with the Social Security 
numbers of 13 people affiliated with the Department of Computer Science on 
the university's Web site. It, too, was immediately removed.

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