The Privacy Podcast: Louisiana Board of Regents Breach

Louisiana Board of Regents Breach

Aaron Titus — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:59:00 -0700

In late June, 2007 I discovered almost 200 files with personal information for 200,000 Louisianans, including 163,000 Social Security Numbers. The files were on a Louisiana State Board of Regents website that appeared to be an internal network, placed online without passwords in some areas.
I am working with the Liberty Coalition to launch SSNBreach.org, where affected individuals can search for their names to find out if they were affected by this, or future information breach.

SSNBreach.org :: Search for your name- were you affected?
Liberty Coalition :: Organization sponsoring ssnbreach.org
Board of Regents Advisory :: Board of Regents Press Release
Board of Regents Breach :: Blog entry on the Breach
Louisiana Board Of Regents Acknowledges Security Breach :: First WDSU Story
La. Security Breach Exposes Thousands To ID Theft :: Second WDSU Story
Board of Regents :: Home Page

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Louisiana Board of Regents Breach (Comment #1)

Dissent — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:42:33 -0700

Kudos to you on discovering the Louisiana breach and to Liberty Coalition for SSNBreach.org. Have added it to the Resources page on the site. :)

Louisiana Board of Regents Breach (Comment #2)

Jen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:49:53 -0700

Do you have any information on the theft from Certegy (Fidelity National Information Services) of 2.2 million consumer records? See Certegy.com for more info. If you are familiar with the theft, would you comment on the possiblity of suing Certegy for providing inadequate protection for the data they collected from the merchants (without our written permission, as far as I can tell). See the recent comments at 'http://www.topix.net/forum/com/bbby/TK6H9RIQRCBI72B32/p17'

Louisiana Board of Regents Breach (Comment #3)

Jay — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:55:23 -0700

Thank you for this information. I found that I am on 4 different files as an employee and have had much more than SS# posted. Unthinkable that they would be that careless and wreckless.