What to know about UMN data breach that affects students workers
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OUR PICKS ppAfter investigating a data breach report from August the University of Minnesota acknowledged Thursday that personal information about students prospective students and employees across 30 years has been compromisedppThe U began its investigation after an individual claimed to have posted information including admissions race and ethnicity information online in July The breach potentially affects students applicants for admission and university employees from 1989 to August 2021ppNames addresses phone numbers Social Security numbers drivers licenses and passport information were all potentially targeted information in the breach which U officials said likely came after someone gained unauthorized access to its database in 2021 The systemwide breach isnt currently affecting university operationsppAlthough student financial aid applications and work contracts may have been stolen donation medical treatment passwords and credit card information were not in the database and not breached U officials said in a statementppThe U said it would post notices about the breach on its websites and email people potentially affected by the breach if their email addresses are on fileppThe email will come from dataincidentnotificationumnedu and will provide more detail about the steps being taken in response to this incident the U said in its statementppThe U is offering potentially affected individuals a year of free credit and identity monitoring services It has a webpage focused on the data breachppThe safety and privacy of all members of the University community are a top priority and the University has increased its vigilance in securing information that it maintains the U statement saidppThe U began investigating a potentially massive data breach in late July after the tech journal The Cyber Express reported claims that a hacker had potentially gained access to more than 7 million Social Security numbersppThe U is facing a federal lawsuit that seeks classaction status over the breach alleging the system failed to establish appropriate security safeguards for sensitive personal data in university recordsppThis report includes information from the Forum News ServiceppCopyright 2023 MediaNews Groupp
OUR PICKS ppAfter investigating a data breach report from August the University of Minnesota acknowledged Thursday that personal information about students prospective students and employees across 30 years has been compromisedppThe U began its investigation after an individual claimed to have posted information including admissions race and ethnicity information online in July The breach potentially affects students applicants for admission and university employees from 1989 to August 2021ppNames addresses phone numbers Social Security numbers drivers licenses and passport information were all potentially targeted information in the breach which U officials said likely came after someone gained unauthorized access to its database in 2021 The systemwide breach isnt currently affecting university operationsppAlthough student financial aid applications and work contracts may have been stolen donation medical treatment passwords and credit card information were not in the database and not breached U officials said in a statementppThe U said it would post notices about the breach on its websites and email people potentially affected by the breach if their email addresses are on fileppThe email will come from dataincidentnotificationumnedu and will provide more detail about the steps being taken in response to this incident the U said in its statementppThe U is offering potentially affected individuals a year of free credit and identity monitoring services It has a webpage focused on the data breachppThe safety and privacy of all members of the University community are a top priority and the University has increased its vigilance in securing information that it maintains the U statement saidppThe U began investigating a potentially massive data breach in late July after the tech journal The Cyber Express reported claims that a hacker had potentially gained access to more than 7 million Social Security numbersppThe U is facing a federal lawsuit that seeks classaction status over the breach alleging the system failed to establish appropriate security safeguards for sensitive personal data in university recordsppThis report includes information from the Forum News ServiceppCopyright 2023 MediaNews Groupp
