This is just another reminder of how safe your personal information is even when in the hands of a trusted institutions like your alma mater. We have all come to fear the activities of rogue hackers, who prey on our computers - the simply fact is that most breaches occur because of a complete disregard or lack for of data management practices.
For example, several months ago, I received a personal data breach notice from CBR.com (my cord blood bank) - an employees car was stolen along with their laptop which contained all of their customer data. These folks are trusted with my families DNA - hopeful they manage that better than my data.
All told, I have received 3 such notifications in the last few years.
The moral of the story - protect yourself by setting up credit watches with the credit report agencies.
The breach resulted when a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server on which the data was stored became searchable via Google as the result of a change the search engine giant made last September, the Yale Daily News reported
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