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Sensitive Columbia University student information exposed for 16 months

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2008-06-15 23:32:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Columbia University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current and former students Number Affected 5,000 Types of Data Housing information including Social Security numbers Breach Description On June 3, Columbia University's Housing and Dining department was informed that one archival database file containing the housing...
 
Tags: columbia, information, university, evan columbia university, evan, security, protect social security, personal information, columbia university
 
 
 
 
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Columbia University Students Private Details Available On Google-Hosted Website For 16 Months

2008-06-16 13:12:32 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Private details and social security numbers of 5,000 Columbia University students had been searchable online for the last 16 months. Students received an e-mail message on Tuesday night from the vice president of student auxiliary and business services, Scott Wright, explaining that in February 2007, a student employee had posted a database of...
 
Tags: columbia university students, students, vice president, business services, searchable online, e-mail message, student auxiliary, tuesday night, social security
 
 
 
 
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Stolen General Internal Medicine laptop exposes nearly 12,000

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2008-05-05 12:17:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Columbia Ave., from 2005 through 2007 Number Affected nearly 12,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, telephone and Social Security numbers Breach Description EAST HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A laptop stolen from a doctors office containing the social security numbers of patients and office staff was stolen recently in East Hempfield...
 
Tags: internal medicine, office, doctors office, information, personal information, office staff, basic patient information, east hempfield township, physicians alliance office
 
 
 
 
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Nice one, Dick!

2008-02-10 07:19:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Columbia Apparently, Vice President Cheney is calling the District's ban on gun possession "unconstitutional". This is the first time the V.P. has gone against the Administration. The V.P. joins 300 senators and representatives who declare that the ban on guns goes against the second ammendment Owners of licensed security companies are sure...
 
Tags: owners, business owners, district, gun owners, vice president cheney, guns, wtop radio tonight, law enforcement, discriminatory law
 
 
 
 
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D.C. Gun Ban Lifted - Thank You Supreme Court!

2008-06-27 02:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Columbia would be allowed to protect their homes and families The vote was not unanimous by any means - the historical decision was arrived at by a 5 to 4 vote to remove the ban prohibiting District residents from obtaining handguns. In a WTOP radio interview today, the NRA lobby spokesman, Chris Cox, spoke about the need for cities such as...
 
Tags: mayor, mayor fenty, supreme court, virginia home, virginia, mayor acted, home, law, guns
 
 
 
 
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D.C. government works to recover from online porn debacle

2008-01-25 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
After firing nine government employees for visiting "an egregious amount" of pornographic websites, the District of Columbia announced this week that it has implemented a filtering scheme that would screen porn on all government computers
 
Tags: government computers, pornographic websites, government employees, egregious amount, porn, district, week, scheme, columbia
 
 
 
 
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External hard drive stolen from Georgetown University

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2008-01-29 15:54:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Georgetown has also notified the U.S. Secret Service about this incident so that they may follow up as they determine appropriate A thorough internal investigation of the hard drive data has now determined that it included personally identifiable information for students enrolled and some faculty and...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, georgetown, georgetown university, hard drive, information, georgetown alumni, personal data, data
 
 
 
 
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D.C.'s tax system won plaudits but couldn't stop alleged insider thefts

2008-03-04 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
In 2002, the District of Columbia began using a $100 million tax system that won an award from a national group. But that didn't stop workers from allegedly stealing millions of dollars via fake refund checks
 
Tags: fake refund checks, million tax system, stop workers, district, award, national, columbia, millions, dollars
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Davita laptop with dialysis patient data at risk

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2008-03-06 15:50:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Columbia, serving approximately 103,000 patients." - Source: Davita "About Davita" page Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current and/or former patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Insurance filings for dialysis services, which includes "name, social security number, medical insurance coverage information, and/or other...
 
Tags: collect personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, personal, laptop, davita, hampshire, hampshire department
 
 
 
 
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Tax information exposed in trash