Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Most Insecure place for Personal Data: Colleges

The largest percentage of security breaches in the United States happens at colleges, with higher-education institutions involved in 30 percent of all incidents, according to ChoicePoint, a consumer data-collection firm. It turns out that 845,000 college students, professors, or alumni have had data about them jeopardized because of security incidents at colleges since January. Soon colleges will be able to boast having over a million served to hackers or identity theives. Source: Los Angeles Times

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