Stolen Laptop at City University of New York Exposes 23, 000 Students
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
At City University of New York a laptop was stolen from a financial aid office. The laptop contained sensitive personal information on the 23,000 current and former students.
Colleges are a hot bed for data theft, primarily due to lax security standards, absent minded professors and the wealth of data available for the taking. Colleges and Universities need to do more to protect student data, it is their responsibility to implement policies and enforce them, as well as educate staff (tenured or not) about the threats posed by careless handling of data. Had GadgetTrak Verey been installed on this laptop, the information on the system would have been difficult to access and the laptop recovered in a short amount of time limiting the risk of identity theft for these students.
Source: New York Post
